In 1988, the clubhouse of the Boston Red Sox, a haven for grumps and churls on the sunniest day that ever dawned upon it, was roiled up because a woman named Margo Adams had filed a $6 million palimony suit against star Boston third baseman Wade Boggs, with whom she’d been keeping company on road trips for the previous several seasons. This caused an uproar unseen in baseball since Jim Bouton published Ball Four, and for many of the same reasons. Ms. Adams was not shy about describing what she’d seen and experienced as a travelling baseball courtesan—what the Irish genius Flann O’Brien would call the “nasty gymnastiness” of baseball players on the road.
No One Wins When the FBI Doubles as the NCAA's Enforcement Arm
