Ballpark Frank

“The Secret Life of Cyndy Garvey,” last year’s stinging tell-all tome from the ex-wife of former baseball hero Steve Garvey, is in development as an ABC-TV movie. That’s the book, you’ll recall, that shattered the first baseman’s squeaky-clean image by describing him as a distant, emotionally abusive, philandering husband.

Garvey’s current wife, Candace, tells us that she and Steve have been aware of a possible movie project since Cyndy “was in the middle of her book tour, something like that. It’s such a joke. The book is so fictitious. . . . I can’t believe they’d set themselves up for a lawsuit like this.”

But Steve, who previously called the book part of a methodical campaign by his ex-wife to soil his reputation, isn’t sure what, if any, legal action he’ll take.

“I have to think about it,” says the one-time Dodger first baseman. “ ‘In development’ is pretty gray. When it gets darker gray, maybe I’ll address it.”

Bruce Sallan, who is producing “Secret Life” for the IndieProd Co., has “absolutely no comment to make on the project,” according to his office. Cyndy Garvey had not returned our calls at press time.