A California man received two years’ probation and a $25,000 fine yesterday for trying to sell a baseball glove he falsely claimed belonged to Babe Ruth.
Irving Scheib, who was sentenced in Manhattan federal court, tried to sell the glove for $200,000 to a federal investigator.
Scheib, 50, claimed the 19th-century glove, which he originally bought on eBay for $750, was a childhood possession that Ruth “slept with under his pillow.”
Scheib said Ruth gave the glove in 1944 to the late actor Robert Young, to whom Scheib was related by marriage.