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Baseball Owners Have to Pay Now

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From Staff and Wire Reports

Reggie Jackson is in the baseball Hall of Fame, and in two weeks he will get another check for $352,173.87 earned as a player.

Tom Seaver will go in the Hall of Fame this year. He gets a check for $1,046,670.98.

The Dodgers’ Orel Hershiser will receive a nice windfall: $320,158.06.

Checks totaling $59.48 million will be in the mail on Feb. 28 to players deemed to be victims of a conspiracy in 1986 and ’87 by major league baseball owners in their quest to hold down salaries for free agents. The complete list was announced Wednesday.

Seven players will receive more than $1 million, including Jack Clark, with the highest award: more than $2 million.

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Included in the list are two deceased players, Donnie Moore, who pitched for the Angels and was awarded $136,006.23, and Rod Scurry, who was awarded $400,077.20.

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San Francisco Giant pitcher Bud Black has undergone arthroscopic surgery to repair a 1987 injury to his right knee. He will be sidelined for at least a month.

Football

Raider assistant coach Terry Robiskie has been hired by the Washington Redskins, according to sources on both clubs.

Robiskie, tight ends coach under Art Shell, will be receivers coach in Washington under new Coach Norv Turner.

The Raiders designated offensive tackle Gerald Perry as transition player, meaning the club can match any offer he receives as a free agent.

Steve Moore was hired as the Rams’ wide receivers coach, and offensive assistant Mike Martz was promoted to quarterbacks coach.

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Moore, who has been out of coaching since 1989, replaces Milt Jackson, who left earlier this month for the Atlanta Falcons. Martz, who coached Ram tight ends last season, replaces Ted Tollner, who left after the season to become San Diego State’s coach.

The Kansas City Chiefs said they will install a grass field at Arrowhead Stadium.

Basketball

Center Olden Polynice and forward David Wood were traded by the Detroit Pistons to the Sacramento Kings for center Duane Causwell and second-round draft picks in 1994, ’95 and ’96.

The Phoenix Suns activated Charles Barkley and Danny Ainge, and put Frank Johnson and Jerrod Mustaf on the injured list.

Washington State freshman point guard Donminic Ellison of Inglewood has been suspended for two games for cutting classes.

Tennis

Sidelined since being stabbed last April in Germany, Monica Seles will remain off the women’s tour “for an indefinite period of time,” her agent said.

Fifth-seeded Ivan Lendl used a superior baseline game to defeat Patrick McEnroe, 6-4, 4-6, 6-4, in the first round of the U.S. Indoors at Philadelphia. . . . Top-seeded Martina Navratilova defeated Christina Singer, 6-2, 6-2, and third-seeded Mary Pierce defeated Marketa Kochta, 6-4, 6-1, in the first round of the Paris Women’s Open. Second-seeded Jana Novotna quit the tournament because of a knee injury. . . . Boris Becker continued his comeback success with a 6-1, 6-4 rout of David Prinosil in the Eurocard Open at Stuttgart, Germany.

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Names in the News

Pepperdine’s Tom Asbury was chosen as coach of the West basketball team in the U.S. Olympic Festival, July 1-10 in St. Louis.

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