In the century before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball and decades before Jack Johnson became the first African American heavyweight boxing champion, a Black man named ...
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Jim Becker, AP reporter who covered Jackie Robinson and an underdog Hawaii football team, dies at 98(AP Photo/Audrey McAvoy) Jim Becker, a former Associated Press journalist, holds a painting depicting Jackie Robinson’s Major ...
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Before Becoming an MLB Pioneer, Jackie Robinson Was a Minor League IdolDodgers great Jackie Robinson was a household name before he broke the Major League Baseball color barrier in 1947. In ...
"Spring training is the opportunity for families to unite," explained Traer Van Allen, general manager of the minor-league St ...
Jim Becker, AP reporter who covered Jackie Robinson and an underdog Hawaii football team, dies at 98
HONOLULU – Jim Becker, a world-traveling journalist who covered Jackie Robinson’s big-league baseball ... away from gambling and distractions at home. Becker detailed the players carrying ...
A version of this story originally appeared on MiLB.com in 2006. We present it here once more as Minor League Baseball ...
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