In a setting usually reserved for dinosaurs and meteorites, baseball settled comfortably Tuesday into New York’s Museum of Natural History.
The Hall of Fame’s Baseball As America exhibit opens to the public Saturday and runs through Aug. 18, the first stop on a nine-city, four-year tour that will take selected memorabilia from Cooperstown around the country.
Among the 26 Hall of Famers on hand was Ernie Banks, dapper in a three-piece suit, who came up with a nugget of information for Cubs fans.
“Wrigley Field was the first place they let fans keep balls hit into the stands,” Banks said proudly. “I just learned that here.”
Making the grade
Ronaldo, who has been bothered by an injury to his right knee since 1998, will get a chance to show if he’s ready for World Cup competition in May after the Brazilian star’s name was on a list of 12 players announced for a March 27 exhibition match against Yugoslavia.
“We need an idea, almost definitive, whether he can participate in the Cup with us or not,” national coach Luiz Felipe Scolari said.
Say what?
`I am just glad that I have kept my good name.’
–Former super middleweight champion Steve Collins, after he was acquitted in Southend, England, of a road-rage attack on a 70-year-old truck driver
