The bosom buddies

(Gene J. Puskar/AP)

It's not every day you see Tom Hanks, Dennis Miller and Ron Howard hanging out together at a baseball game. Especially not in L.A. for a Hollywood Stars Night.

So what gives, cha-cha? Why were these three hanging out in Pittsburgh on Tuesday night to see Jim Tracy's team take a 13-4 thumping? Couldn't find their way home after last week's All-Star Game? Thought they were going to see "Pirates of the Carribbean"?

Miller, a Pittsburgh native, joined Hanks (who's looking more and more like Jim Belushi) and Howard at Tuesday's game at PNC Park. The night before, they were in Baltimore. Wednesday, it turns out, they'll be in Cincinnati. Thursday, it was Detroit.

It was Hanks who has decided to visit seven ballparks as a birthday present to himself. "I turned 50 10 days ago," Hanks said. "This is the dream you have all the way back."

"Tom is so influential that he's arranged a St. Louis Browns game," Miller joked.