Playboy cover girl Bo Black, wife of Brewers manager Tom Trebelhorn, dead at 74

Bo Black, a former Playboy Cover Girl and wife of former Major League Baseball manager Tom Trebelhorn, has passed away at the age of 74.

The blond beauty, who was adored in her adopted city of Milwaukee for presiding over the annual Summerfest celebration, died Friday morning at her home in Scottsdale, Ariz., after a lengthy health decline, confirmed Trebelhorn, Black’s husband of nearly 20 years.

“She was a pistol, pal,” recalled Trebelhorn, who managed the Milwaukee Brewers from 1986 to 1991 and the Chicago Cubs in 1994. “She was a pistol.”

Born in St. Louis as Elizabeth Bussmann, she was 21 years old at the time of her September 1967 Playboy pictorial. The famous cover features her sporting green-and-white striped socks and a green shirt with a Playboy Bunny decal. By her feet is a football inked with the year “1967″ as she cradles a football helmet underneath her right arm.

Despite being offered a whopping $5,000 to pose nude for the magazine, Black refused.

“Are you kidding?” I wanted to be a nun!” she told the Arizona Republic in 2018.

Model Angela Dorian got the centerfold while Black took the cover.

“My mother would have had a fit,” said Black on declining to go buff. “She was a good Catholic girl. She went to Mass every day.”

After graduating in 1969 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Black taught in the Milwaukee school district and later became executive director of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, according to the Republic.

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In Milwaukee, she was best known as the energetic presence behind Summerfest, billed as “The World’s Largest Music Festival.”

During her reign as executive director, Summerfest blossomed from a regional event to an international powerhouse capable of luring the world’s greatest musical acts, including Whitney Houston, Metallica, Britney Spears, Pearl Jam, Janet Jackson, Paul Simon and Shania Twain.

“She always made everyone feel special, whether it was the Summerfest board or the janitor who was just picking up trash on the grounds,” said Black’s daughter Stephanie Anderson, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. “That’s a remarkable quality that I hope my kids take from her.”