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NEW YORK (AP) You're a bricklayer who has
been working for the Acme Construction Co. for 5
years. You started a4 an apprentice at $2.25 an bour
but now get $14.50 with timeand-2-half for overtime.
Tt’s not 2 bad living. You've got a house in the .
suburbs and enough money socked away to send the
kids to collége. The company’s been nice to you but
you feel. you're stuck; . golng- nowhere. —
Agross town, the Titanic Builders Corp. offers you
a job as superintendent with. half again a3 much
money. You take it. Acme doesn't scream. It shrugs”
and elevates another apprentice. - a
. ‘The sume scenario — with more flamboyant
trappings and figures multiplied many times over +
— is occurting now in baseball. ee
Simplistically, that’s the core of the threatened
layers’ strike which may see the season open wilh”

‘Whatever happens, the year 1991 may go down as -
another landmark in the history of the game — and
for big-time pro spurts generally.

It might be the year that baseball is burtled to
earth and shocked into the realization that spectator -
sports are no longer fun and games-with their own -
hands-off set of rules but are an integral part of

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‘The relationship between an owner: and player,
for instance, is no different than. that between the...
bricklayer and his boss, or working agreements in °
other enterprises, whether they be autos, steel, the.
theatre or common labor. .

The free agent compensation insue, “the key to the.
Current strike threat, is complex and, to the unin-
volved outsider, deadly boring. .

it began with frée agency in 1976 after an ar-
bitrafor and the courts had ruled mgytnst fit 7:

"serve clause, which’had made the bellplayer a
virtual serf of the club, its property for life until. ;

‘fraded or sold.

. Free agency brought freedom. ps contracts ras
~ out, players put themselves on the open market and °
_Feaped salaries that defied belief. .
: The owners. agonized. Some complained they

‘could not afford the competitive bidding..Com- | -
_ Inissioner Bowie Kuhn saw it as a “thing time

_, Protecting 15 players.

The playest futicate they'd rothér sit out the
season than yiei any of their hard-earned free

agent gains.

_ The clube’ complaint that they'shoukt be com”

 .pensated for years sind money spent in developing a

| player holds Iittle water. In igdastry, big companies

. + Steal off bright, young execitives al the time,

‘And let’pshut the door on talk that baliplayers are. -
-\apoiied and are ruining . the game.with their’ «

demands. Why begrudge Reggie Jackson his $2.9
million for five years and Pete Rose his $3.2 milion

. fer four wheri actor Paul Newman gets $ millionfor —
fi single plebure?
- . Nobody's Meecing anybody in beseball, Let the
guys put their talent on the shelf and let owners bid
, away. ‘That's a the way big businens is played.

~ Players agreed four years agé to permit-a team 1
_Jewing a:player in the free-agent reentry draft to -
~, Receive as compensation an amateur draft choice. .
argued — it
bh the pewest negotiations, the owners have
" demanded that any club signing a free agent wha
was drafted by at least seven other teams must
surrender one of its roster players after first

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it’s back to work |

MONTREAL (CP) —
Bul. Lee doesn’t need a
- weatherman to tell him it's
me (to report for spring
“My body's coming out of

its cocoon, and that means’

I’ve got to work tomorrow,”
said the 44-year-old Montreal
Expos left hander, whose
comments off the baseball

Whole country

LOS ANGELES (AP) —
Steve Guitenberg, who plays
Jim Craig, star goalie of the
US. Olympic ice hockey
team, say2, “It's difficult
when you play someone
who's alive and real."”
“You know they have in
the back of their mind,
“That's not me,”” Guttenberg
says. “With fiction, you can
create in any direction f
Jim Craig was't a real
person [ woulda’t have had
fostraighten my hair. Which
cawed my hair to fall out. or
pick-up a Boston Irish ac-
cent.” .

The story of the gold-

medalwinning ‘American
hockey team is told in
Miracke on ice, a three-hour
movie to be broadcast by
ABC Sunday night.

“The magic of the show is
that the whole couniry was
behind the team," Gut-
tenberg says. “We had
hostages in tran and the
Russians were taking over
Afghanistan. And this was
our liitie army beating them.
In the 1970s, it was ‘Stop the

War’ and ‘Burn the Flab." -

We boat a bot of cur spirit.
Now if was coming back with
this * game.”

Craig and his team-mates
defeated the powerful Soviet
team and won the gold medal
* na game against Finland at
Lake Placid, N.Y., last

an Olympic goalie caused a
eecdnd thought for Gut-
teaberg, a brash young actor
from Breoklyn. Before be
became ‘ successful, he

crashed the gates

at the movie siodios and ~~
using one subterfuge oF |
casting

znother — dafiel on

directors.
Be was often booted out.

but be always got beck in the

diamond have frequently -
overshadowed his per-

formance between the white:

‘With a few days of grace -
before the pitchers are due ta |
report to the Expos.camp at
West Palm Beach, Fla., Lee
arrivéd in Montreal on
_ Monday night to promote a
film ‘be is making with

nd-it’=

next morning. He recails
that at one studio; he passed
himself off as the company
president's son,

“I'd say anything was OK
if you didn't get arrested or
shot,” he says. “It’s. ‘Dot

illegal. [didn*thave anagent -

or anything. I had to get my

product before the buyers. 1.
got a few people on my side.
They knew I was doing a |:
bustle, but it was a harmiess © ~

bustle and they were
amused.”

It was one such escapade |
at Paramount that paid. off.
“I went to the casting”

director's office," Gut-
tenberg recalls. “He called

the guards and had me

thrown out. The next day, I
marched back into his office
ami pleaded for just five
minutes. He gave me 45
minutes, called eight other
casting directors, and] got a
part in Something for Joey.”
Guttenberg starred in the
CBS series Billy, in which be
Played a youth with an over-
active fantasy Life, and in
such movies at Players, The
Boys from Brazil and The
Chicken Chronicies. .
He also is a student at
UCLA, where he is working
wward a dentistry degree.

Occasionally, he drope out to.
take a movie role, which he

ts doing this quarter la work
in on MGM {lm - called

.

Double Bill Productions, a
new motion picture studio in
the city.

“The movie" just shows

how I live my life,” said Lee. ~

“They filmed me at one point
installing a washer and
‘dryer in a plex apart-
ment.”

ate ole ian't likely to win
the fun-loving southpaw an
Academy Award.- Nor is be
likely to forsake the pitching
mound for employment as an.
betel even though
are
questioning whether Lee can
earn a spot in the Expos
starting rotation this season.

“All | want i to go to
spring training and be
healthy,” he told a news

the 7)-day disabled list. .
Lee had no sooner ©

activities ranging from
fishing near his home in
Bellingham, Wasb., near
Vancouver, to simulated sky
diving in Montreal, Lee is

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ching the 16 victories he

compiled for the Expos in

“*] feel good. I'm lighter
than I should be (189 pounds)
but that ought to make my
knees fee! better.” .

Despite the relatively:
‘qlean bill of health, the
former member of the

American League's Boston
Red Sox heads to camp with

"at least two misgivings.

“I'm going to miss
Daytona Reach »” Lee said of
the Expos previous training

* site. “I’m especially going to -

miss the bikers’ girlfriends
whistling at my legs.” .
The other regret is the

missing pair of legs that

belong to Ron LeF lore, who
stole 97 bases for Montreal in

g. 1980 before joing Chicago

White Sox as a free agent
last November.

“LeFlore’s: concept was

_ that you didn't just try to

steal second base. You went
‘there because it was yours.
It was in bis blood.

“When that ‘concept pre-:
_vailed, everyone followed in -
is footsteps and we ran

‘people to death. 1 pray w

Buddha that Tim Raines will
do the same thing this yenr. I
be: learned = from
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game the same way.”

. Raines, who stole 77 bases
with Denver Bears, the
Expos AAA affiliate in the
American Associatibn, last
season, will be given a long

look at training camp.

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