Dodgers Make Some Dreams Come True

Dodger Manager Jim Tracy and his wife, Deb, along with a number of players and their wives, will deliver new toys and video games Wednesday from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. to the remodeled Dodger Pediatric Room at White Memorial Medical Center, 1720 Cesar Chavez Ave.

The Dodgers’ wives organization has been involved with this project since 1995. The team’s Dream Foundation made a $5,000 donation in January to pay for the remodeling.

And now comes a White Christmas in July.

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Trivia time: Svetlana Feofanova of Russia became the first woman to pole vault 16 feet, clearing that height Sunday at a track meet in Iraklion, Greece. Who was the first male pole vaulter to clear 16 feet?

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Marathon woman: Britain’s Paula Radcliffe holds the women’s marathon record of 2:15:25, set at the 2003 London Marathon. No British man ran a marathon as fast last year.

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American rarity: Frank Shorter, who will serve as the official starter of the Keep L.A. Running 5 and 10K in El Segundo on Sunday, is the only U.S. runner to win an Olympic marathon in the last 100 years. Shorter won at Munich in 1972.

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Another idea: So Mike Krzyzewski has decided against coming to the Lakers. Scott Ostler of the San Francisco Chronicle has this suggestion: “Why not go for the guy all of us really want to see take a crack at coaching that team: Bobby Knight?”

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Good thinking: From reader Bill Littlejohn of South Lake Tahoe: “I noticed that the Milwaukee Sausage stayed away from Coney Island Sunday.”

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Howe about that: The New York Mets’ sweep of the Yankees at Shea Stadium marked the first time the Yankees had been swept in a road series since Aug. 10-12, 2001, when the Oakland Athletics did it. The A’s manager was current Met Manager Art Howe.

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Youth movement: The Sunday New York Post included a full-page feature, complete with a cutout photo, about an up-and-coming basketball player named Lance Stephenson.

“My goal is to be the No. 1 player in the country at any age,” Stephenson told the tabloid newspaper. “I know I can do it.”

Stephenson is 13.

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Looking back: On this day in 1933, the first baseball All-Star game was played at Chicago’s Comiskey Park. Babe Ruth hit a two-run home run to help the American League win, 4-2.

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Trivia answer: John Uelses of La Salle University cleared 16- 3/4 on March 31, 1962.

(Note: Don Bragg, who won the 1960 Olympics with a vault of 15-9 1/4, was among the last of the vaulters to use a steel pole. With the onset of the fiberglass pole, the pole vault world record was broken 17 times between the ’60 Olympics and the ’64 Olympics.)

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And finally: Regarding Sunday’s Times quotebook from Randy Johnson -- “I’ve done everything short of sell my soul to the devil to win” -- Bret Lewis of KFWB says, “Randy, it’s not too late. Two words: George Steinbrenner.”

Larry Stewart can be reached at larry.stewart@latimes.com.