European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 21, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes ports january 21,1994 Page 40 baseball will have 6 divisions in 1994gilmour. Hurt May miss nil All stargaze Hartford Toronto Center Doug Gilmour suffered a badly bruised Bone in wednesday night s game with the Hartford whalers and will probably miss saturday s All Star game in new York his coach said. I Don t think he s going to go to the All Star game Pat Burns said following the Maple Leafs 3-3 tie with Hartford see Page 35 for wednesday s games. Gilmour Hurt his right Arm during the second period when he collided on open ice with Hartford s Pat Verbeek. Gilmour s 52 assists leads Toronto and is second Best in the nil. By Steven wine fort Lauderdale Fla. A baseball this season will have six Divi Sions expanded playoffs and no commissioner. Owners acceded to compensation de mands by the players association for an extra round of postseason games allow ing teams to implement the format the approved last september. The american and National leagues will each realign into three divisions fro two. Division champions and a wild card team in each league will qualify for a Best-of-5 playoff series with the four win ners advancing to Best-of-7 league finals. Before adjourning their quarterly meeting wednesday owners also decide to suspend a year Long search for a com missioner until they negotiate a Labo agreement which Likely will take until August or september. Milwaukee brew ers president Bud Selig agreed to continue running baseball As chairman of the ruling executive Council. There had been speculation that a Dis Pute Over ticket Revenue from the extra playoff games would prevent adoption of the expanded format in time for this sea son. But owners accepted the Union s de Mand that players receive 80 percent of the new look no East Atlanta Florida Montreal new York mets Central Cincinnati Chicago cubs Houston Pittsburgh St. Louis. No West Colorado los Angeles san Diego san Francisco. Al East Baltimore Boston Detroit new York Yankees Central Chicago White sox Cleveland Kansas City Milwaukee. Minnesota. Al West California Oakland Seattle Texas the Money from the first three games of each first round will continue to receive 60 percent of the Revenue from the first four games of each league final and world series. Owners were Wise to concede the higher percentage to players for the first round games management negotiator Richard Ravitch said. This was not the occasion to have extensive bargaining Over relatively Small amounts of Money Ravitch said. The possible economic benefits the owners would have derived Are meaningless com pared to the value of showing we can come to an agreement without acrimony and move on to other based on an average ticket Price of $20, the additional playoff games would produce about $9.6 million in annual Rev Enue for the players Ravitch said. The search committee charged wit finding a new commissioner considered 382 candidates Over a 11-month period then received a new directive from own ers never mind. Owners convened monday with these Lection of a commissioner As a priority. But at least 16 of the 28 clubs told the search committee wednesday that they opposed bringing in someone new when the sport is confronted with Complex eco nomic issues. People have a right to change their mind especially As events unfold Selig said. Dealing with ups and Downs Down under Sweden s Stefan Edberg left photo signs autographs before leaving the court and Austria s Thomas Muster right photo shows his frustration after missing an easy shot at the australian open Tennis championships in Melbourne thursday afternoon. Edberg Defeated Jan is Mccrink of the Netherlands 4-6, 6-2, 6-1, 6-1, and Muster took a straight sets Victory from Den Mark s Kenneth Carlsen 6-4, 6-4, 6-2. Seepage 33 and 38 for Complete wrap up of thursday s matches. 7 re i0"246850"000504
