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Thursday, March 2, 1989 / University Daily Kansan
Boggs is no sex fiend, mistress says Penthouse article to detail All-Star's four-year extramarital affair
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Margo Adams,
estranged mistress of baseball
player Wade Boggs, said yesterday
that she saw no evidence of Boggs'
being a sex fiend during her four-
year affair with him, although he
once told her that he was considering
psychiatric help.
Kicking off an eight-city publicity tour for her two-part interview in Penthouse magazine. Adams also said she had dated former mayor Warren Garvey, who got remarried a week ago, and that they were still friends.
Adams met the press for the first time since the story of her affair with the Boston Red Sox's Boggs broke last June.
"I'm a 33-year-old woman, and I Wade had a sex disease, if he thought he was overexused — well, I didn't say to no sex any more than he did," she said.
"On our last road trip together, though, in Milwaukee, we were having dinner together, and he said to me. 'Maybe I should go to a psychiatrist, maybe 1 should get some help.'"
The first of Adams' two Penthouse interviews will appear in the April
issue. The May issue will contain not only the second part of the interview but also semidecimal photos of Adams.
Asked if she had dated any other ballplayers, Adams said she had. She said she would name only Garvey, but the other players "had been so vocally lately" about it.
She said the second of the two interviews might contain more about her relationship with Garvey, who is a former teacher to the father of two illiterate children.
She said she had spoken to Garvey since he was married.
"I know he's kind of current now," she said. "I congratulated him on his marriage, and he wished me well. We've staved friends."
Boggs, a five-time American League batting champion who has two children with his wife Debbie, has admitted having the affair and told reporters recently that he thought he might have been a sex addict. Last Friday, Red Sox pitcher Dennis "Oil Can" Boyd criticized Boggs as a sex fiend who needed psychiatric help.
"As far as him having a sex disease," Adams said, "my attorney tried to get him to clarify that. To me, he was just like a lot of other
ballplayers."
During the weekend, an appeals court in California threw out a key portion of Adams' $12 million lawsuit against Boggs, ruling she could not sue for emotional distress. That portion of her suit accounted for $1.5 million of the damages she lost wages and expenses as she traveled with Boggs on what she said were 64 road trips during the four years.
"I was disappointed," she said of the judge's decision. "But what's important is that at the beginning, I was told the lawsuit was frivolous and it had nothing right away. Now, people know Wade used the FBI to harass me."
Adams said in the suit that Boggs accused her of extortion in an FBI interview. The court ruled that any statements Boggs might have made to the FIE were privileged information and would not constitute grounds for a suit.
During the news conference at Penthouse's Upper West Side offices, Adams characterized most of the ballplayers she has known as immature, boozing skirt chasers who had been shielded from responsibility.
'When I sat across from Wade for
two days at the deposition, I had to wonder how I could have considered myself very smart all that time." Adams said. "It's not just the sex. It's the immaturity. They are unbelievably protected. They don't get the chance to face responsibility, and that breeds immaturity."
Adams said not all the Red Sox players she knew were alike. There were players she seldom saw in bars, and never with strange women — among them Marty Barrett, Dwight Evans, Roger Clemens, Rich Gedman, Bruce Hurst and Bob Stanley, she said.
She said she did the Penthouse interviews in hopes they might prevent other women from becoming involved with married men as she had. She said she didn't expect ball-players to change their habits.
"When you are a young girl and fail in love with someone who's married, you put your faith and trust in someone who has to lie and cheat just to conduct the relationship," Adams said. "That's stupid."
She said she regretted that the affair ever had started.
"But we had a great love affair and great sex," she said.
Sports Briefs
GAMES CANCELED: Today's Kansas home baseball game against Washburn has been canceled because of snow. Tuesday's game against Fort Hays State also was canceled because of snow, and it will not be rescheduled. The Jayhawks are 0-3 this spring, losing all three to Arkansas last weekend.
KU ULTIMATE CLUB; The Horr-
Zontails, the KU ultimate frisbee club, made it to the semifinals of the 10th Annual Centric Ultimate Frisbee Tournament in Austin, Texas, last weekend.
The Horror-Zontals finished the tournament with a 4-2 record, placing second in pool play with a 3-1 record. The strong pool play finish qualified the Horror-Zontals for the quarterfinals. They defeated the Austin Ether Seals 13-12 in the quarterfinals and lost to a team from Houston 13-7 in the semifinals.
ROYALS SELLOUT: The April 3 season sponsor with the Toronto Blue Jays has been sold out except for general admission seats, the Kansas City Royals announced yesterday.
The Horror-Zontals' overall record is 10-2.
The 5,000 general admission
seats, which are never sold in advance, go on sale at 11:30 a.m. the day of the game.
Herk Robinson, Royals executive vice president administration, said it was the earliest opening day sell-out in the club's history.
STEWART RELEASED: Missouri basketball coach Norm Stewart, who underwent surgery Feb. 14 for colon cancer and a diseased gall bladder, was released from a hospital, officials said.
During the operation, doctors removed Stewart's gall bladder and one third of his colon. Doctors said at the time that Stewart stood upright and would not fail recovery but probably would not coach anymore this season.
AGASSI INJURED; Andre
Agassis withdrew during the second
set of his quartetroce
against John McEnroe at the WCT
Pimls last night, saying he aggra-
ded a padded muscle in his left
leg.
Agassi was not limping noticeably during the match. He said later that he incurred the injury during the US Pro Ino labor tournament and had been assessed and had considered defending before yesterday's match.
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