BASEBALL : DAILY REPORT : AROUND THE MAJOR LEAGUES : Steinbach Released From Hospital

Oakland catcher Terry Steinbach was discharged from the hospital Monday, two days after being beaned by Chicago White Sox pitcher Bobby Thigpen. Oakland Manager Tony La Russa said Steinbach will be held out for a few days.

Steinbach, who suffered a concussion, was to rejoin the team sometime during Monday’s game and take the A’s charter back to Oakland. “He still has some discomfort, he’s still got some concussion effects,” La Russa said. “I think mentally he’ll be all right when he’s all right physically. He showed when he got hit before what a tough guy he is.”

Bobby Brown, the American League president, has yet to receive videotapes of Saturday night’s fight, but he did talk to crew chief Joe Brinkman.

Brown told Chicago Manager Jeff Torborg and La Russa that he will come down hard on anyone taking place in altercations on the field.

Torborg said, “I told my players there was a warning, but the warning is--we (the league office) will come down very hard on anyone who participates in any more stuff on the field.”

Torborg said while it was implied, Brown would not stand for any head-hunting, what he was worried about were incidents such as players “heading for the mound, the popping off and stuff like that.”

La Russa could be fined or suspended for hurling a bat into the netting behind home plate and above some fans.

Associated Press stringer Bob Glass, who was chased out of the Oakland clubhouse after the game by the players, said pitcher Dave Stewart came up to him and shook his hand Monday. However, La Russa has said he won’t talk to Glass because the stringer “challenged his manhood” when Glass yelled at La Russa to “be a man” and finish the postgame questioning.

Kit Stier of the Oakland Tribune, president of the Baseball Writers Assn. of America, said he was considering taking action against La Russa and would probably file a protest to Commissioner Fay Vincent, Brown and Oakland management.

San Diego’s Jerald Clark and Bip Roberts didn’t leave with the team Monday. Clark’s left ankle was checked, and he was cleared to rejoin the team today against the Chicago Cubs. Roberts, who has been bothered by recurring spasms in his lower back, underwent a magnetic resonance imaging exam. The results were normal, but he will remain in San Diego for additional tests. . . . Arthroscopic surgery on San Francisco outfielder Kevin Mitchell’s left knee was rescheduled for today. . . . This month’s Negro League reunion at Cooperstown, N.Y., has been postponed because only 50 hotel rooms were set aside and more than 80 former players responded, William J. Guilfoile, associate director of the Hall of Fame said. The event probably will be rescheduled for sometime in August. Although black leagues were in existence as early as the 1880s, the National Negro Baseball League officially began in 1920 and disbanded in 1950, three years after Jackie Robinson broke baseball’s color line as a member of the Brooklyn Dodgers. . . . Fay Vincent said he thought owners would accept the recommendation of the National League expansion committee and that he will decide later this week on the American League’s request for part of the $190 million in expansion money. Baseball officials discounted a report in Monday’s editions of the Rocky Mountain News which said the AL would ask for a delay in the expansion vote, scheduled June 12 at Santa Monica.