Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, April 25, 1990 TAG: 9004250375
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: C2 EDITION: METRO
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DATELINE: LENGTH: Short
The owners held a joint teleconference Monday to ratify the four-year deal, which runs through Dec. 31, 1993. The vote is not official, however, until the commissioner's office receives written notice of approval from the 26 clubs.
A memorandum of settlement was signed March 19 by negotiators for management's Player Relations Committee and the union. The formal agreement still is being drafted.
Both sides have until April 30 to ratify the deal, which ended management's 32-day lockout. Ballots from five teams are being awaited.
\ National League umpire Bob Engel has been charged with stealing 4,180 baseball cards, authorities in Bakersfield, Calif., said.
Engel, 56, was released on $5,000 bail from Kern County Jail on Saturday and is scheduled to be arraigned May 2 on misdemeanor counts of commercial burglary and petty theft, police said.
A store security officer told police that Engel put seven boxes of Score baseball cards, valued at $143.98, into a brown paper bag he pulled from the waistband of his pants.
When police asked why he took the cards, Engel reportedly replied "to collect and trade."
by CNB