European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 11, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 22 the stars and stripes july 1985 owners May have overstated 84 losses new York a baseball owners May have Over stated their 1984 losses by an accounting professor hired by the clubs but the report said the 26 teams still lost the head of the players Union said the figures indicate thai some of what they say can be taken at face but continued to insist the owners actually made As much As million in the two which have been without a contract since arc scheduled to meet again for the to continue negotiations on a collective bargain ing George a teacher at new York said that according to his interpretation of audited financial statements supplied by major league baseball lost million in 1984 on operating expenses of More than Lee head of the owners player relations originally set the amount at sorter said the million was based on information provided by 24 teams the Houston astros and Minnesota twins were late in giving their sorter said that after reviewing All 26 the loss figure was but said he thought million in initial roster depreciation should be that an amount that arises when a team is sold and a portion of the Purchase Price that makes up players contracts is paid off Over several should not be treated As an operating sorter accounting rules require this but this is an expense which is a function of buying and rather than operating a in sure i disagree with the owners on said who was standing next to Macphail and Milwaukee Brewers owner Bud Selig while he made his sorter emphasized that although he was being paid by the i am not the owners accountant and in not the players Macphail did not comment on Sorters but both said the multimillion Dollar losses did these Are not paper these Are Macphail baseball is a losing Industry that is getting increasing sorter the pc called a news briefing to try to dissipate some of the confusion that has Arisen Over the financial state of Macphail we have supplied percent of the material Treyve asked Macphail we anticipated and hoped they would work with we got a lot of stuff about voodoo economics and two sets of a few minutes after the pc completed its presenta Fehr held a news conference a few blocks Fehr claimed the figures presented by the owners did not Tell the entire and he took Issue with Sorters evaluation of the losses presented the question is this something they just discovered Fehr but its an acknowledgement that some of what they say can be treated at face Fehr also said he thought the initial roster depreciation figure was in the Vicinity of to rather than he again summed up the unions position that instead of taking the accounting figures As we traced the and what we found was that there was million to million More in the Bank than when they the Union also has hired a Stanford University professor to study the financial information provided by the Fehr said that report was to be completed wednes Fehr said a Union meeting was scheduled for tuesday in one Day before the Allstar Fehr said a players Boycott of the a position once suggested by the was still an option being although such an action has seemingly been less of an Issue in recent Al from Page 17 errant Pickoff throw went into Center the royals then brought the infield in and second baseman Frank White Dove to snare Willie Randolph liner for the second but Mattingly knocked in Henderson with a single to left to make it new York added two runs in the Henderson doubled two outs Dave Winfield walked to Knock out Black in favor of Mike Henderson and Winfield executed a double steal and Don Baylor bounced a single up the which White fielded but threw wildly to allowing both runners to orioles twins 6 Baltimore Eddie Murray slammed his 10th career base loaded Homer in the sixth inning to Power Balti More Over Minnesota in a game delayed 36 minutes in the ninth inning by Nate allowed Only one hit Over 22a innings for the he suffered a broken rib when Mike Ste houses line drive struck him in the ribs in the Snell recovered the Ball in time to throw out Stenhouse at Murray gave Baltimore a 105 Lead in the sixth when he unloaded his 13th Home run of the off reliever Clint Ward singles by Alan Wiggins and Cal rip Ken were sandwiched around a walk to Lee loading the Minnesota had Given Ken a 40 Lead in the third Greg Gagne led off with a double off starter Dennis advanced on Kirby pucketts infield and scored on Mickey watchers infield Randy Bush loading the and Puckett scored on Kent a rocks Force Sten House singled to Center to score and Gary Gatti singled Home chased Schrom with a six run fourth inning highlighted by two run sin Gles by John Shelby and indians rangers 2 Cleveland Bert Blyleven tossed a four hitter for his league leading 12th Complete game and Andre Thornton had a Home two singles and a base loaded a photo orioles Eddie Murray 10th grand slam walk and knocked in four runs As Cleve land Defeated in pitching his seventh straight Complete struck out five and walked five to give the indians their first three game winning Streak since May Blyleven has 101 strikeouts this one behind Detroit league leading Jack and has recorded 100 or More strikeouts in 15 of his 16 big league sea Only in when the right hander pitched Only 20 innings because of an Elbow injury did he fail to record at least 100 Burt took the Texas fourth Cleveland took a 20 Lead in the first in Ning when Julio Franco singled and scored on Tony Bernazard who has 13 Bis in his last seven then singled Home the rangers tied the game in the third on Pete Briens two run double before the indians regained the Lead 32 in the Bottom of the Brett Butler grounded into a fielders stole Sec Ond and scored on Francos single to put Cleveland ahead to Cleveland padded its Lead to 52 in the Jerry Willard doubled and Franco reached first with two outs on shortstop Curtis Wilkerson Bernazard walked to Load the bases and Thornton walked to Force in a Dave Rozema relieved Hooton and allowed another run by walking Brook Cleveland closed the scoring in the seventh when Bernazard doubled and Thorn ton followed with his fifth Home red sox As 3 Steve Lyons chopped an infield hit to score the deciding run and highlight a three run Boston rally in the ninth inning As the red sox Defeated right hander Dennis scattered seven hits and pitched his 11th com plete Steve the third of four Oakland was the Blue jays mariners 4 Seattle George Bell hit a nth inning grand slam to Lead Toronto Over Tony Fernandez led off the 13th with a walk off de Vande he was erased on a fielders Choice by Damaso but Lloyd Moseby and Jeff Bur roughs followed with singles to Load the Louis Thornton came in to run for Bur roughs before Bell belted his first career grand slam and his 17th Home run of the season to snap a 44 Angels Brewers 4 Juan Beniquez singled Home Rob Wilfong from second base with none out in the Bottom of the 10th inning to give California a come fro behind Victory Over Wilfong led off the inning with a gift double when left fielder Robin Yount apparently lost the Ball in the lights and fell Down As the Ball sailed Over his Beniquez then hit loser Rollie fingers first pitch to him into right Field to give the Angels their seventh Victory in the last eight which is 197 in one run decisions and 81 in extra innings now has a six game Lead in the american league the biggest in the franchises 25year Walker no from Page 17 eighth Bob pitched seven innings in absorbing the dodgers pirates 3 Pittsburgh Rick Honeycutt and Tom Niedenfuer combined to Check Pitts Burgh on six and Steve sax had a two run single As los getting 16 Defeated the a pair of errors on right fielder George Hendrick led to three los Angeles runs As the dodgers reached pirate starter Rick Rhoden for 12 hits Over the first in allowed two pirate runs and four hits Over 5w innings until Niedenfuer worked the final 3 for his seventh expos braves 1 Atlanta right hander Bryn Smith yielded Only five hits and had a career High 10 including six in a to Lead it was the fifth Victory in the last six decisions for who walked three in 8 Tim Burke got the final out for his third the consecutive which came in the third and fourth were just one Short of the expo record set by Steve from Page 17 est before the completion of his College eligibility created a firestorm of controversy and brought massive attention to an infant league seeking credibility As an of season counterpart to the established National football for the first two Walker was the generals sole this year he was joined by Boston College quarterback Doug Doug made things a great Deal easier for Walker he took a lot of the pressure off and he gave me an Opportunity to learn a lot More about i got a Chanceton read defences like a Quarter Back and got a Chance to become a you never see an nil running Back line up As a receiver and go you see that in the walkers contract now runs through the Dallas guessing or hoping that the Usel wont be around that made him their fifth round pick in last aprils nil asked whether he could envision himself in the same Backfield with the cowboys Tony the 222pound Walker replied it be an he said he didst experience any resent ment when he and his huge contract arrived at the generals there were a lot of older Guys on the team at that i think they were Able to understand it a lot if there been a lot of younger it might have been More difficult for despite winning the Rushing title with Yards As a Rookie with virtually no break following his final year at Georgia and finishing third in the league with Yards last Walker was considered by Many to be a critics said he want running with As he had in critics Are always he i think the Only people who could have criticized me at that time were the people who were tackling its easy to sit in the stands and to get out there and do it is very the Only difference Between then and this season was experience and being 100 percent and Hes finally beginning to love the All my life Ive been doing what other people wanted me to not what i wanted to Walker from the time i was a kid i played football because everyone said i should play i didst want to go to College but i went because people said i while i was at i just played it want like i loved Over the past year or Ive gotten to the Point where i really love i love to com Ive always loved that but Ive never really experienced the Joy of the game until