TORONTO (CP) — When Angeles this season to play like toys and run their lives.” The law says you have the The Herald, Friday, December 22, 1978, Page ? was to say good-bye to m ti go off and Jook for a fur- National Hockey League for the Kings. . Lawyer Clayton Ruby says right not to sign your con- team-mates that day. I st nished | apartment some- star Phil Esposito was Two years ago, he has little sympathy forthe - tract.” Butin effect, hesays, don't know if ’'ve ever got where,” Esposite says. traded to New York from Philadelphia 76ers of the players withlarge contracts, this means that the players over that.’ “It's worse for the young Boston nearly three years National Basketball Theaverage yearly salary have the right to starve. Esposito left his two players with small children. Just highly paid slaves? ago, he didn’t want to go. “But unfortunately in our position you don't have a choice,” Esposite says. “It's almost like slavery.” Brian Glennie, former To- ronto Maple Leaf defen- ceman, says he felt the same way when he moved to Los Association paid a team ina rival league $3million for Julius (Dr, J.) Erving. Erving, who signed a $3- million contract, teld Sports Hlustrated magazine that some owners in professional sports think of the players as they would a set of toy trains. in the National Hockey League is about $90,000, and stars like’ Darryl Sittler of Toronto Maple Leafs make more than $200,040 a year. But Ruby describes the binding of players to teams as economic coercion. “Many of these people don’t have any other skills. Esposito says that in the 9% years he played for Boston Bruins he became close to his team-mates, Then he was told of his trade to New York and that he would ‘have to play for Rangers the same night. “Probably the toughest thing I ever did in my life children, now 10 and 14, in Boston, and is able to see them only during time off and during the summer. Another trade might come anytime, sending him anywhere on the continent, “I'd have to leave my wife alone to pack all the clothes andsell the furniture while I “Sport is not a kid's game. It’s a tough business and anyone who can't treat it that way is going to get badly hurt. 1 know, because I’ve been there." “But it's like they own you. It's tough. You can't just leave if you want to. SELECTED LUGGAGE | prices. Be prepared for your next trip. a ‘selection of smartly styléd luggage at low'* , “They exchange players * K mart Regular List Price . 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