NEW YORK (June 29, 2012)--A California man has pleaded guilty in a New York court to charges stemming from an attempt to sell for $200,000 a 19th-century baseball glove he 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 and 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.

Scheib, 50, faces as much as 20 years in prison when he’s sentenced on Oct. 30.