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Tuesday, September 22, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Sports
Ruling could benefit baseball free agency
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Baseball owners conspired to destroy free agency after the 1985 season, an arbitrator said yesterday in a ruling which could force open the market for stars like Jack Clark, Dale Murphy and Cal Rinken Jr.
In his 16-page decision, arbitrator Tom Roberts wrote that the clubs' approach to free agency in 1985 was not consistent with the existence of a collective bargaining agreement between players and owners.
Roberts wrote that free agents surely had a value at some price and yet no offers were advanced. He underlined "no" in his ruling.
"We want to comply, and we will comply," said Barrona Rana, the owners' chief negotiator. "But I can't tell him to engage in free agency or not."
The decision affects Kirk Gibson, Donnie Moore and 60 other 1985 free agents, but it offered no remedies. Hearings on those remedies will begin this week, with Roberts presiding.
"The arbitrator found that the clubs entered into a common scheme, the effect of which was to destroy free agency," said players'
union head Don Fehr. "In other words, they corked the market. We will ask the arbitrator . . . (to make sure that it will never happen again."
Asked if he was surprised by the ruling, the union's associate general counsel, Gene Orza, said, "Not really. I think if 65 percent of the baseball fans understood what was going on, one arbitrator could figure it out."
Fehr said he expected to talk with Rona first, then meet with Roberts to begin the hearings. Fehr said he would seek remedies through money or new free agency opportunities for players already affected, along with punitive damages from the owners. He also said much money the union would seek.
"One of the great difficulties I have with the decision is trying to figure out what it is we have to do different to be in compliance with the collective bargaining agreement," Rona said.
Rona said he held a conference call with all 26 major league owners yesterday afternoon to inform them of the decision.
"The response of the owners was to ask a few questions about what it means, what I thought the remedy stage would be and the impact on future cases," Rona said.
Volleyball team gears up for series of away games
The Kansas volleyball team will play Central Missouri State at 7:30 tonight in Warrensburg, Mo., in the first of seven straight dual matches and one tournament on the road.
By a Kansan reporter
The Jayhawks, 4-6, will not play another home match until Oct. 16, when they play host to Iowa State in a dual match in Allen Field House.
Kansas has lost four straight matches, all at home, including three over the weekend at the Kansas State. Southwest, Missouri, State, a team
Kansas defeated in the Bears' home gym two weeks earlier.
The Jayhawks, 0-1 in Big Eight Conference play, will play four conference matches on the road before returning home.
"I'm hating to get into the conference matches right now because we're getting down a little bit," coach Frankie Albitz said.
Junior outside hitter Eileen Schwartz will not play tonight; instead, she will see a doctor today to have her left knee examined.
Sports Briefs
Colorado's buffalo mascot dies
Ralphie II, the University of Colorado's buffalo mascot, died Saturday of heart failure, but Ralphie III is waiting in the wings to make her debut at Folsom Field.
son.
The original Ralphie attended all CU home and bowl games every season between 1966 and 1978.
Ralphie II made her first appearance during the Buffs' 1978 football season finale. The 12-year old buffalo accompanied the football team on its two recent bowl trips and occasionally made road trips during the regular sea-
Ralphei III is about two years old and was in training to replace Ralphei II for the 1988 season. She now will make her initial appearance either at this week's Washington State game or at the CU-Kansas game on Oct. 17, said CU Athletic Director Bill Marolt.
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