The Fort Worth Zoo will have a distinguished visitor, a future member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, pass through its gates at some point before long.
Adrian Beltre, the 31st and newest member of baseball’s 3,000-hit club, wants to meet his namesake.
The Texas Rangers third baseman said on Tuesday that he had already been informed that the zoo named one of its two reticulated male giraffe calves Beltre, with the zoo saying it “wanted to give this calf a name that embodied his strength and liveliness that was apparent from Day One.