Ex-waitress: Randy Rocket once made pitch to me, too

The wife of retired pro-wrestler “Brutus ‘The Barber’ Beefcake” claims
accused baseball bad boy Roger Clemens made a pass at her 18 years
ago, but the married Red Sox [team stats] ace never reached first
base.

Barbara Leslie, 43, of Winchester - then a comely waitress at the
celeb-magnet Palace nightclub in Saugus - claims that in her brush
with the Rocket, he said, “ ‘What would you do if I tried to kiss
you?’ ” and she replied, “ ‘What would your wife say if you tried to
kiss me? ”

Clemens’ Houston attorney Rusty Hardin did not respond to a request
for comment on this latest accusation of extramarital shenanigans by
the seven-time Cy Young Award-winning pitcher, who’s also under
investigation by the FBI for steroid abuse.

The New York Daily News reported Monday that Clemens, 45, began a
decade-long affair with troubled country music crooner Mindy McCready,
32, in 1991 when she was 15 and he was already a Major League legend.
Yesterday, the paper quoted a “tearful” McCready as saying, “I cannot
refute anything in the story.”

McCready’s mother told the Herald her daughter, who has struggled with
substance abuse and a tanking career, brought Clemens by the family’s
Fort Myers, Fla., home just a couple of years ago for breakfast, but
she believed they were just friends.

Leslie, who hadn’t yet met her husband of 15 years, Edward Leslie, was
fetching drinks in lifeguard shorts and a tank top at the Palace when,
she says, Clemens happened by with a pal in 1990.

“People were going, ‘Roger Clemens is here, Roger Clemens is here!’ ”
she said. “Being a big sports personality in Boston, all the
waitresses wanted to wait on him. He definitely didn’t act like a man
who was married, though.”

Leslie said Clemens had been in the club about an hour and she admits
to flirting with him until he allegedly followed her into a dressing
room off-limits to the public, leaned into her and made the clumsy,
rebuffed overture.

“Back then, it was a compliment to have someone like Roger Clemens
think you’re pretty, and I’m a huge Red Sox fan,” said Leslie, “but
the next day, I was totally grossed out.”

And no richer for it, apparently.

“I gotta tell you, he wasn’t that great a tipper,” Leslie said. “As I
recall, he didn’t even take his money out.”
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