Record Series Payoffs: Each Royal Gets $76,000, Each Cardinal $55,000

Record World Series shares of $76,341.71 for each winning Kansas City Royal and $54,921.76 for each losing St. Louis Cardinal were announced Monday.

The figures broke the records of $65,487.70 and $44,473.31 set in 1983 by the winning Baltimore Orioles and losing Philadelphia Phillies. The money was generated by a record players’ pool of $7,805,371.25. Kansas City had $2,809,933.64 for distribution, and St. Louis $2,107,450.24. Both teams voted 31 full shares.

Kansas City’s split included one-third shares of $25,447.12 to Steve Farr, Mike LaCoss, David Leeper and Jamie Quirk, and cash grants of $5,000 each to Omar Moreno and Mark Huismann, $3,000 to Larry Gura, $500 to Tony Ferreira and Jim Scranton and $100 to Bob Hegman.

St. Louis gave half-shares of $27,460.91 to Todd Worrell, Cesar Cedeno and Joe Boever, a one-third share of $18,307.26 to James Hunt, a one-quarter share of $13,730.44 to Curt Ford and cash awards of $3,000 to Pat Perry and $2,000 each to Doug Bair, Andy Hassler, Art Howe, Matt Keough and Mike Lavalliere.

The postseason payoffs grew because the pennant playoffs were expanded to best-of-seven game series.

The Dodgers, National League West champion, voted 30 full shares of $25,990.78, and the Toronto Blue Jays, winners of the American League East, got $26,697.41 for each of 27 full shares.