Journalist Jim Becker has died at 98. He traveled the world as an Associated Press reporter, and covered Jackie Robinson’s ...

Jim Becker, an author and a newsman who covered numerous monumental events in history, died today at age 98. STAR-ADVERTISER / 2006 Jim Becker, an author and a newsman who covered numerous monumental ...

COURTESY PHOTO Jim Becker at his surprise 98th birthday party last August. Jim Becker, an author and a newsman who covered numerous historic events around the world, but might be most remembered in ...

Eig’s book, which has been reissued this month ... “In the fall of 1953, King watched Jackie Robinson and the Brooklyn Dodgers play the New York Yankees in the World Series on a television ...

The former baseball commissioner was noted for welcoming all who played a role in the national pastime — including former ...

His first book, The 50 Greatest Dodgers Games of All ... He was the last link to the Dodgers team that made baseball history when Jackie Robinson became the first Black player to suit up for ...

Three score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we now stand, delivered, “I Have a Dream,” calling for an ...

A teammate later convinced Brown to attend a Dodgers tryout -- a decision that helped him land in the record books ... base alongside the legendary Jackie Robinson. Suffice to say, Robinson ...

Jim Becker, a former Associated Press journalist, holds a book showing a 1945 photo of him as a Stars and Stripes correspondent in Shanghai, at his home in Kaneohe, Hawaii, May 21, 2024.

LINCOLNVILLE: King spoke at this church during the civil rights movement, as did Jackie Robinson. Hundreds or ... and converted the last remaining Green Book hotel from the Jim Crow days into ...