NEW YORK -- Margo Adams details in the latest issue of Penthouse magazine how Boston Red Sox third baseman Wade Boggs 'hit the roof' when she told him she dated Steve Garvey.
Adams, who poses nude in the second installment of her revelations about her affair with Boggs, said she accepted an invitation from Garvey, the former Dodgers and Padres star, to see him in Texas. It came on a weekend, she said, when Boggs' wife, Debbie, was traveling to be with him in Milwaukee. Boggs asked Adams to stay home.
'I accepted Steve's offer only to make Wade jealous, and it worked,' Boggs said in the Penthouse interview, which hits the news stands Tuesday. 'I told Wade about my date with Steve and he hit the roof. He was upset. He wanted me to cancel my trip with Steve and go to Milwaukee instead. Steve was single at the time, and I felt better about goiung out with a single man. Steve Garvey is a wonderful man -- smart, very sexy, a great lover. As far as a lover, he's much better than Wade.'
Two women recently claimed Garvey fathered their children and one has filed a paternity suit against the former first baseman.
Other highlights of Adams' interview include allegations that Boston players hired prostitutes in Cleveland, more of the boudoir games she and Boggs played and how she says Boggs injured his back in 1986 while drunk at a bar.
Adams says she talked to Penthouse, because 'I needed the financial backing that Penthouse could give me along with the emotional support.' Reportedly she was paid $100,000.
Adams relates that Boggs told her several players pooled their money and invested two Cleveland prostitutes. Penthouse quotes her as saying, ''Do you know that I just read that 22 percent of the hookers in this area carry the AIDS virus? Are they using condoms?' Wade looked at me with a smile and said, 'Ooh, they could be in trouble.''
The spurned mistress also said Boggs enjoyed sitting her on a countertop and shaving her with a barbershop razor. She labeled his work as that of a 'perfectionist.'
As for the back injury, she says Boggs told her it happened while he was out drinking with Toronto catcher Ernie Whitt. Boggs was wearing new cowboy boots and he tried removing them so Whitt could try them on. Instead, 'he fell into the arm on the couch of the bar. He was so drunk at the time it didn't hurt. But afterwards it became an injury that kept him from playing. He had to come out with a cover story ... that's when he came up with the cover story, claiming he tripped taking off his boots in his hotel room.'
An editor's note follows that story, saying Boggs subsequently denied to author David Schumacher that 'he was so drunk at the time.'
Adams said Boggs and the Red Sox 'think the Mets are the lowest of the low ... disgusting.' She says the Mets are 'smartasses' in the Red Sox' opinion, and alleges Boggs worried about a 'cokehead' throwing a 90-mph pitch at him after Dwight Gooden was caught with drugs.
The Mets defeated the REd Sox in the 1986 World Series.
Adams, 33, is currently suing Boggs for $500,000 in Florida court, for lost compensation while she accompanied him on the road. She turned down a $20,000 settlement that he offered. Adams lives near San Diego, Calif., and sells real estate. She claims she lost $100,000 in income by accompanying Boggs on road games last season.
Adams also claimed that many major league players got batboys to sign autographs for them, except at card shows. Adams also claimed players did not report income from these signing sessions -- up to $12,000 -- to either the IRS or their wives. Alan Nero, Boggs' agent, has denied both these allegations.
