3 Florida Cities on Expansion List : Baseball: Six areas still being considered for two new National League teams. Sacramento is eliminated.

Six cities and prospective ownership groups, including three from Florida, were chosen today as finalists for two National League expansion teams.

The NL’s “short list” is composed of Buffalo, Denver, Miami, Orlando, St. Petersburg-Tampa and Washington, D.C.

Eliminated were Nashville, Tenn., Charlotte, N.C., Phoenix and Sacramento.

The league has said two new teams will begin play in the 1993 season with final selection of the franchises expected before the end of next September.

Cubs reliever Mitch Williams, who struggled through the 1990 season after saving 36 games in 1989, said he wants out of Chicago after the club signed free-agent reliever Dave Smith.

“They signed Dave so they could get rid of me,” Williams said Monday in a telephone interview from his Arlington, Tex., home.

“I just don’t care for the things I’ve heard about (Manager) Don Zimmer talking behind my back. There’s no question now that I want out of Chicago,” he said.

The Daiei Co., Japan’s largest supermarket chain, today denied a U.S. news report that its owner was trying to buy a stake in the New York Yankees.

An Associated Press report from New York last Saturday quoted unspecified documents as saying that Daiei Chairman Isao Nakauchi was considering buying a 9.6% stake in the Yankees.