![]() To accompany this month’s exclusive portfolio of photographs taken by top Penthouse photographers I asked her to comment on several aspects of the world of baseball, as well as address her ongoing litigation with Boggs and the controversy over her Penthouse interview. Margo told most of her personal experiences in her interview in last month’s Penthouse. What Boggs did is no different than what many others in baseball do every day, but he lost control of his situation.” As one of these teammates told me anonymously, “After all is said and done, there is no way Wade Boggs can continue to be a member of the Boston Red Sox. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that this has been the subject of a Watergate-style cover-up when over 100 members of the media swarmed all over a Pizza Hut charity baseball game in a futile attempt to grab a piece of the story.Īfter listening to hours of Margo’s remembrances, as well as hearing what Boggs told her about his teammates, the Red Sox organization, and the entire game of baseball, for that matter - to say nothing of what his teammates have said about him - I have no doubt, along with most other observers, that Boggs will probably be traded. I began, for instance, to get propositioned to work on a string of biographical sports books, including one on Boggs himself. Penthouse editors received the kinds of typical calls from lawyers and agents that a magazine or newspaper receives when it’s working on a story of this nature, but some of the calls I got were more suggestive or roundabout in nature. ![]() But many others were made in the clear attempt to kill the story. ![]() Many of them were routine press inquiries. But, I realized as I reviewed my notes, this was a man who had announced to the world through screaming headlines: “I Was a Sex Addict!” What else, I thought to myself, should I expect from him now?Īs I continued my research into Margo’s story, dozens of phone calls began coming into the Penthouse offices and my home. He had often denied many of Margo’s allegations to anyone in the media who was willing to listen. At times during our discussion, I couldn’t believe what he was confirming for me. The majority of his teammates, I discovered, knew all about Wade Boggs’s relationship with Margo, although very few approved of either the liaison or the girl.įinally, I talked with Boggs’s agent, Alan Nero - a conversation that led to a conversation with Boggs himself. And even though I may have made a few friends during the whole process, you could bet the farm that most would rather feed me to Freddy Krueger than leave me tickets at will-call.Īs I began to research the article, I received calls from ballplayers everywhere, each using a variation of the same introduction: “Am I mentioned in the piece?” Most tried to negotiate with me: “I’ll confirm parts of the story or I’ll give you something better, if you can find a way to leave me out of this!” One player was shocked when he received my call: “Margo knew about that?” he exclaimed. Although most would talk only off the record, I was able to reach, finally, better than 90 percent of those involved. These conversations, I must admit, were riveting. Because of the ramifications of some of the aspects of what Margo alleged, it was important that I speak to as many of the individuals involved as possible - managers, players, trainers - as well as the groupies, strippers, and girlfriends who surrounded them. The players, for example, who were directly or indirectly involved in their four-year romance would have made any big-league owner proud to carry them on his roster. When I first began researching Margo’s story, I was overwhelmed by the elements that took it way beyond the tale of one man and woman and their personal travails. Although we expected that the article would generate extraordinary interest, no one was prepared for the fire storm of controversy that engulfed the nation’s sports pages once word leaked that Penthouse was considering the story for publication. ![]() In December 1988, I submitted my interview with Margo Adams to Penthouse, excited and happy that we were finally able to tell her entire story. No one was prepared for the fire storm of controversy that engulfed the nation’s sports pages once word leaked that Penthouse was considering story for publication.
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