Mr. Zuckerman contended that the documents, proved that the former owners conspired to mislead and defraud him.

'No Offers Advanced' Roberts's ruling, issued yesterday in New York, said that baseball's owners had conspired to "destroy" free agency after the 1985 season.

An arbitrator ruled Monday afternoon that the 26 owners of baseball teams had improperly conspired to destroy the system of free agency.

Even his predecessor as commissioner, Bart Giamatti, rejected the notion that the owners had conspired to keep players in their places and their salaries in check by declining to sign other teams' free agents.

George Steinbrenner, the Yankee owner, testified for nearly four hours yesterday at a hearing of a players' union grievance that owners conspired to restrict the movement of free agents and hold down salaries.

And this doesn't mean over the recent several years when the owners, according to rulings by the arbitrators, conspired to hold down players' salaries.

Penurious and indifferent owners, poor trades, suspect managers and some truly bad teams have conspired through decades to influence Philadelphia's gloomy faith.

After an arbitrator decided that the owners conspired against free agents in 1985 but 2.

When National Football League team owners imposed the cap anyway, the players sued, claiming that the owners were conspiring to restrain trade in violation of Federal antitrust law.

But the most unseemly part of the deal was that Mr. Bush and the Rangers' owners conspired with city officials to seize private property that would be handed over to the Bush group.