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2:30pm Baseball

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You don’t have to go to Cooperstown to see baseball greats inducted into a hall of fame. The Baseball Reliquary each year honors a handful of people who have contributed to America’s pastime by electing them to the Shrine of the Eternals. This year, the honorees include Morris “Moe” Berg, the player and coach who was a spy during World War II; Bill “Spaceman” Lee, the left-handed pitcher who rebelled against the corporatization of baseball; and Pam Postema, who has sued Major League Baseball in her attempt to be the first female umpire. Lee and Postema will attend. Berg died in 1972. The Baseball Reliquary is a nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering an appreciation of baseball as a part of American culture.

* Shrine of the Eternals: 2000 Induction Day Ceremony, at the Donald R. Wright Auditorium, Pasadena Central Library, 285 E. Walnut St., Pasadena, 2:30 p.m. Free. (626) 791-7647.

all day

Art

Large-scale drawings by artist and scholar Donna McClelland re-create the elaborate scenes that were painted on the ceramic vessels of the Moche people in “Moche Fineline Painting of Ancient Peru,” opening Sunday at UCLA’s Fowler Museum of Cultural History. The Moche civilization flourished on the north coast of Peru between AD 100 and 800. Because they had no writing system, the Moche left behind a vivid artistic record of their daily life that was detailed on ceramic vessels, similar to the Greek vase painters of ancient Athens. The exhibition offers a look at Moche stylistic traditions over time exemplified by 50 drawings by McClelland and many of the vessels on which the paintings were based.

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* “Moche Fineline Painting of Ancient Peru,” UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, 405 Hilgard Ave., UCLA campus, Westwood. Wednesday-Sunday, noon-5 p.m.; Thursday, noon-8 p.m. $5; seniors and students, $3; UCLA students, $1; 17 and under, free. (310) 825-4361.

7pm

World Music

The latest concert in the Hollywood Bowl’s world music series is called “Global Divas,” and it brings together South African legend Miriam Makeba, Cuban singer Albita and Washington’s fiery folk-rocker Toshi Reagon.

* Miriam Makeba, Albita, Toshi Reagon, Hollywood Bowl, 2301 N. Highland Ave., 7 p.m. $5 to $85. (323) 850-2000.

1 and 8pm

Movies

Harold Lloyd is featured this weekend at the Silent Movie Theatre in “Why Worry?,” a 1923 comedy directed by Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor. In a setup foreshadowing Woody Allen’s “Bananas” 50 years later, Lloyd plays a wealthy American who travels to a small country for his health, only to become entangled in a revolution. Packed with the wall-to-wall sight gags for which Lloyd is famous.

* “Why Worry?,” Silent Movie Theatre, 611 N. Fairfax Ave., Hollywood. Friday-Sunday at 8 p.m., with a Sunday matinee at 1 p.m. $6 to $8. (323) 655-2520.

5pm

Theater

Harry Groener, three-time Tony nominee and veteran of stage and screen, and Michael Learned, stage actress and matriarch of “The Waltons” TV clan, star in in a revival of Neil Simon’s comedy “The Good Doctor,” based on stories by Chekhov.

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* “The Good Doctor,” Pasadena Playhouse, 39 S. El Molino Ave., Pasadena, 5 p.m. Regular schedule: Tuesdays-Fridays, 8 p.m.; Saturdays, 5 and 9 p.m.; Sundays, 2 and 7 p.m. Ends Aug. 20. $15 to $42.50. (800) 233-3123.

Freebie

Guitarist-vocalist Finis Tasby and others strike up Blues in the Park at the Warner Center, Bredlow Pavilion, Woodland Hills. 5 to 7:30 p.m. (818) 704-1587.

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