Whitton Also Pinch-Hits as a Writer

Actress Margaret Whitton, who stars as the good sister opposite Teri Garr’s evil one in ABC’s new sitcom “Good & Evil,” has a successful second career as a writer.

But you won’t find her prose in women’s magazines. Whitton, who has appeared in the films “Major League” and “The Secret of My Success,” has written about baseball for the late The National, the New York Times and the Village Voice.

Originally, she used a pen name. “I had this asexual pseudonym I used because I didn’t want to trade in on my name as an actor. I won’t tell you what it was because I may want to resurrect it.”

Whitton now lives in New York, and her heart belongs to the Yankees. “I have brilliant seats at Yankee Stadium,” she says. As for the team: “They’re rebuilding. They’ll come back.”

Whitton was absolutely in her element when she got to play the conniving owner of the Cleveland Indians in “Major League.” “Oh boy, did I want to do that,” she says gleefully. “I based her on George Steinbrenner.”

Whitton is excited about her latest literary assignment: to write a foreword for a book about baseball great Ty Cobb. “I have made some notes and stuff. I just need to start on it.”