European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 9, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Detroit a Cecil fielder be Ond Hig baseball agreeing thursday wifi the de came the second highest paid player in troit tigers on a $36 million five year contract. Fielder a 29-year-old first baseman who has led the major leagues in Bis for three consecutive seasons gets a record $10 million signing Bonus in the new Deal Topping the $9 million set last month by Kansas City s David Cone. Fielder s $7.2 million annual average trails Only Barty Bonds who will average $7,291,667 under his $43.75 million six year contract with san  made $4.5 million last year tied for eighth most in the majors. His new contract Calls for salaries of $2.2 Mil lion in the first two seasons and $7.2 Mil lion a year in the final three. He drove in 132 runs in 1990, followed that with 133 Bis in 1991 and 124 last season he hit 51 homers in 1990 and Fol Lowed it with 44 in 1991 and 35 last year. He joined the tigers after playing in Japan. Fielder was eligible for free Agen Milwaukee s Dan Schayes gets the Ball but has to shake off the Hawks Kevin Willis. By after the 1993 season but put pressure on Detroit by demanding a Trade in no vember. Under the collective bargaining agreement the tigers would have had to Trade him by March 15. Quot in addition to his salary he can earn bonuses of $100,000 if he finished first or second in the voting for most valuable player $50,000 each for selection As map in the playoffs or world series $25,000 for winning a Silver slugger award and $25,000 for playing in the Allstar game. Best is. 23-5 2 the stars and stripes january 9,1993 b Page 28 Aba by the associated press Dallas a the matchup Between the Best and the worst in the Aba turned out far closer than expected. The Phoenix suns owners of the Aba s Best record 23-5had to out score the 2-25 Dallas Mavericks 2918 in the fourth Quarter to escape with a 111-107 Victory thursday night. A it was Tough to get up for a game like this Quot said Charles Barkley no led the suns with 32 Points and added 14 rebounds. Quot that a Why we re just a Good team and not a great team yet. For a while there we lost our Intel  Phoenix was ahead 73-60 in the third Quarter and seemed on the verge of putting the game away before Derek Harper triggered a 29-9 Dallas run with five consecutive Points. Dallas held an 89-82 Lead entering the final period Only the second time All season the Mavericks had the advantage after three quarters Phoenix went ahead for Good with 1 20 remaining when Dan Maierle scored off a pass from Charles Barkley to make the score 105-103. Barkley s two foul shots with 50 seconds left pushed Phoenix a advantage to 107-103, and Tom Chambers upped Phoenix a Lead to 109-105 with 15 seconds left tipping in a Barkley miss. Majerle a two free throws with 5.5 seconds remaining iced the game for the suns who won for the 18th time in their last 20 games. Quot whereas this team that in be been hearing about that gets beat every night Quot said Phoenix coach Paul Westphal. Quot i thought they played hard and we  grind them Down with our Bench. In a real glad to get out of Here with a  Harper returning from a four game injury Layoff led the Mavericks with a season High 31 Points. Sean Rooks and Terry Davis added 15 each. In other games thursday spurs 109, jazz 99 san Antonio Dale this scored a season High 33 Points and David Robinson added 16 As san Antonio Defeated Utah for the third time this season. Trail blazers 113, rockets 91 Houston a Portland took advantage of Houston a 19-Point fourth Quarter to win its third straight and Send the rockets to their sixth loss in a Row. Hawks 100, Bucks 94 Milwaukee a Stacey Augmon scored 20 Points including two key baskets in the final minute and Kevin Willis added 18 Points and 14 rebounds As Atlanta ended a four game losing Streak. Warriors 119, heat 105 Oakland Calif. Chris Mullin scored 24 Points and Chris Gatling and Latrell Sprewell added 19 each As Golden state continued its resurgence with a Victory Over  s hat trick Sparks flyers Over capitals by the associated press Philadelphia Kevin Dineen broke out of a slump with three goals As the Philadelphia flyers crushed the Washington capitals 8-2 in the nil thursday night. Philadelphia which has just one loss in its last five games nil p 3-1-1recorded its 999th franchise Victory. Washington which had been unbeaten in its last four 2-0-2suffered its first loss against a Patrick division opponent in its last eight games 6-1-1. Dineen had just two goals in his previous 20 games and two Points in his last eight contests. Flyers goaltender Tommy Soderstrom who made his 10th consecutive Start evened his record at 4-4-2. He is 4-11 in his last six starts. In other games thursday blues 3, flames 2, of St Louis a Brendan Shanahan suspended by the nil earlier in the Day for a stick swinging incident scored on a 15-foot slap shot with 2 02 left in overtime to give St. Louis a Victory Over  stars 6, penguins 3 Pittsburgh Ulf Dahlen scored three goals and Russ Courtnell added two As Minnesota beat Mario i Mieux less Pittsburgh. Dahlen registered his third career hat trick and the first by a North Star in 41 games this season. Lemieux who has been ordered by doctors to rest his ailing Back until Jan. 25, watched from team president Howard baldwins private Box As the penguins 5 0-1 Streak ended. Pittsburgh is 16-3-3 at Home Nordques 3, Bruins 2, of Boston a perennial Adams division Doormat Quebec moved into first place As Andrei Kovalenko a overtime goal gave the Nordques a win Over Boston. Kovalenko got his 15th goal of the season at 1 35 of overtime. Claude Lapointe passed from the left boards to the left Side of the Slot where Kovalenko one timed a 30-footer to the left of goalie John Blue. The Nordques 6-1 in their last seven games have 54 Points one More than Montreal oilers 3, Blackhawk 3 Chicago a Steve Larmere a second goal of the game with 5 38 left in regulation Ramea Chicago a tie with Edmonton. Larmer took a pass from Michel Goulet who had circled the oilers net As goaltender Bill Ranford was shoved Back and jammed the puck Over the goal line. It marked the 11th straight season that the Chicago Iron Man had scored 25 goals. Larmer was playing in his 843rd straight game.  it v t a a 0 �?~246850�?~000351