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April 4, 2014

A home run investment?

Warren Buffett, the fourth-richest person in the world, has expressed an interest in investing in the Chicago Cubs, an anonymous source told Forbes. The Cubs’ ownership is reportedly looking to sell a small stake in the organization to help fund the redevelopment of Wrigley Field and the surrounding area. Forbes valued the organization at $1.2 billion, making it the fourth-most valuable franchise in Major League Baseball.

Sports stories

The Chicago Sports Museum, located in an 8,000-square-foot space on the seventh floor of the Water Tower Place on the Magnificent Mile, opened on Wednesday. The items in the museum come from the personal collection of Grant Deporter, CEO of the adjacent Harry Caray’s 7th Inning Stretch restaurant.

TimeOut Chicago on Tuesday posted a list of its favorite pieces of Chicago sports memorabilia in the museum, which are: a corked bat used by former Chicago Cubs slugger Sammy Sosa; the foul ball tipped by Steve Bartman in the Cubs’ 2003 playoff game; the stitches Chicago Blackhawks player Andrew Shaw received after he was hit in the face with a puck during the 2013 Stanley Cup Finals; Former Chicago Bulls player Will Perdue’s size 21 basketball shoes; and the hoverboard and sports almanac used by Marty McFly in the movie Back to the Future II, during which McFly traveled to the year 2015 and learned that the Cubs won the World Series.

Caught off guard on camera

CBS 2 Chicago chief correspondent Jay Levine was caught off guard by an anti-Obama protester during a live report on Wednesday. Levine was outside of a River North restaurant where President Barack Obama was attending a Democratic National Convention fundraiser when a protestor grabbed his microphone and yelled that Obama was a “war criminal.” Law enforcement quickly intervened. CBS cameras caught the initial confrontation, and nearby a NBC camera captured footage of the end of the incident.

CTA pride

Actor, comedian and native Chicagoan Bill Murray appeared on the “Late Show with David Letterman” on Wednesday and showed his Chicago pride by wearing a tie depicting the Chicago Transit Authority’s “L” train system, Brandon Wall of the Chicago Sun-Times pointed out. Murray’s CTA tie can be found on the CTAGifts.com website for $45.

“Chicagoland” recap

From Next City: The fifth episode of CNN’s eight-part docu-series “Chicagoland” explored Chicago Public Schools students’ return to class for the 2013-2014 school year and focused a large portion of its attention on CPS’s Safe Passage routes. CPS expanded the Safe Passage program this year to help protect students attending new schools following the district’s closure of about 50 schools last year.

Technology incubator Techstars’ annual Demo Day also received some screen time in episode five. The Techstars scenes featured “behind-the-scenes commentary” from Match.com CEO and OKCupid co-founder Sam Yagan.

-Tom Butala