HONOLULU (AP) — Jim Becker, a world-traveling journalist who covered Jackie Robinson’s big-league baseball debut and the U.S. Army’s retaking of Seoul during the Korean War, died Friday.

Jim Becker, an author and a newsman who covered numerous historic events around the world, but might be most remembered in Hawaii for his article titled “The day the Govs won it all,” died ...

Jim Becker at his surprise 98th birthday party last August. Becker would say the editors ripped out all the news and put this story on the front page. The lead story of that day was “Two flee ...