The Johns Hopkins University Blue Jays will...

The Johns Hopkins University Blue Jays will make history today when they take on athletes from the D.I. Mendeleyev Institute of Chemical Engineering--the first U.S. baseball team to play a Soviet team on Soviet soil.

Never mind that the game probably will be lopsided in favor of the boys from Baltimore, who spent the last two days giving pointers to their opponents, or the fact that the batting helmets were lost somewhere on the flight from New York. American baseball has arrived in Moscow.

Although the first of three scheduled games is taking place at the same time as the Moscow summit, President Reagan had a full schedule and it appeared unlikely he would accept the invitation to throw out the first pitch.

Johns Hopkins alumnus Max Flaxman, a fur trader in Moscow, is responsible for getting the Blue Jays, an National Collegiate Athletic Assn. Division III team with a 26-12 record this year, the games with the Soviets. The Soviets began their baseball program in 1987, since it will become an Olympic sport in 1992.