Man admits fake Babe Ruth glove ruse

A California man has pleaded guilty in a New York court to trying to sell for $200,000 a 19th-century baseball glove he falsely claimed belonged to Babe Ruth.

Irving Scheib entered the plea to a count of wire fraud in federal court in Manhattan on Thursday. The government says the Bonsall, Calif., resident bought the glove on eBay for $750 in January. It says he then claimed the late ``Father Knows Best'' actor Robert Young had gotten the glove.

The government says Scheib is married to one of the actor's granddaughters. Prosecutors say a buyer backed out after Scheib refused to notarize a letter. They say Scheib was caught after an investigator posed as a New York buyer. The 50-year-old Scheib faces up to 20 years in prison on Oct. 30.