To find James Beckum, you often didn't need to look farther than the field that bore his name. He was a titan of Milwaukee baseball, but that didn't mean he didn't care about the little things. How ...

Until he was almost 90 years old, James Beckum cared for the baseball diamonds where his Little Leaguers played with fastidiousness and pride. He cut the outfield grass. He picked up litter. He drove ...

Milwaukee Little League legend James Beckum died Monday, Nov. 11 at 95 years old. Beckum of the Beckum-Stapleton Little League got involved in the sport in Milwaukee in 1964. Beckum used baseball to ...

Injuries have hampered TE Travis Beckum’s three years with the Giants, who placed him on IR on Wednesday. (US Presswire) The Giants moved TE Travis Beckum to IR because his lingering knee injury would ...

When I walked up to Diamond 4, better known as Beckum Park – it’s what the scoreboard says after all – that lone 84-year-old was combing the infield dirt atop an orange Smithco tractor. He wheeled it ...

Beckum-Stapleton Little League fields are getting upgrades thanks to the Milwaukee Brewers' Christian Yelich, American Family and other groups. The league is a nonprofit, volunteer organization that ...

MILWAUKEE (WITI) -- The biggest names in baseball are getting together in Minneapolis this week for the Major League All-Star Game. Meanwhile, back in Milwaukee, one of the biggest fixtures of the ...