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

Carsten Charles Sabathia, the 6’6”, 300 plus pound dominant left-handed pitcher, who won 251 games during his 19-year Major League Baseball career, joined Ichiro as a first ballot inductee, receiving ...

Baseball history changed forever with Jackie Robinson. Honored in McDonald's Faces of Black History 2025 live on the 360Wise.

There are many influential African Americans in US History. Many have stood up against slavery, segregation and racial legacy ...

In many ways, there have never been more pathways for women interested in working in professional baseball, with examples in front offices, coaching staffs and departments across the sport. Their ...

HONOLULU (AP) — Jim Becker, a world-traveling journalist who covered Jackie Robinson’s big-league baseball debut and the U.S.

Jim Becker, a long-time journalist who had spent more than 40 years in journalism including a role as a national reporter for the Associated Press (AP), died at age 98 in Honolulu due to natural cause ...

HONOLULU (AP) — Jim Becker, a world-traveling journalist who covered Jackie ... s New York headquarters without an appointment and was hired to start the next day. He watched Robinson become ...

Becker joined the AP in 1946 fresh out of the Army when he walked into the wire service’s New York headquarters without an appointment and was hired to start the next day. He watched Robinson ...