Yankees keen to keep Benedict off grass

POPE Benedict XVI’s three days in New York pose logistical challenges beyond making sure that he is safe.

Among other things, organisers had to widen some footpaths for the popemobile, figure out how to distribute Holy Communion to 57,000 people and teach schoolchildren to sing Happy Birthday in German. He turns 81 today.

They also had to promise to keep the Pope and everybody else off the grass at Yankee Stadium.