User:CmdrDan/Marge Schott
| Born | August 18, 1928 |
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| Died | March 2, 2004 (aged 75) Cincinnati, Ohio |
Margaret Unnewehr Schott (August 18, 1928 – March 2, 2004) was the managing general partner, president and CEO of Major League Baseball's Cincinnati Reds franchise from 1984 to 1999. She was the third woman to own a North American major-league team without inheriting it (the first being New York Mets founder Joan Whitney Payson), and the second woman to buy an existing team rather than inheriting it.[1] She is perhaps best known for her racist statements made while owner of the Reds, which included slurs of African-Americans, Jews, and Japanese people. She was banned from managing the team by the MLB from 1996 through 1998 as a result of her statements in support of German domestic policies of Nazi party leader Adolf Hitler; shortly thereafter, she sold the majority of her share in the team.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/04/racist-team-owners https://www.google.com/search?q=marge+schott#q=donald+sterling%2C+calvin+griffith%2C+george+preston+marshall
Dark Days For Baseball December 21, 1992 http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1004674/index.htm Marge Schott: unleashed http://books.google.com/books?id=ydntAAAAMAAJ&q=marge+schott&dq=marge+schott&hl=en&sa=X&ei=QPV-U7fiDcjesATViICgCA&ved=0CDUQ6AEwAQ http://books.google.com/books?id=xroDAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA61&dq=marge%20schott&pg=PA61#v=onepage&q=marge%20schott&f=false Cincinnati Magazine Jan 1993 http://books.google.com/books?id=kB4DAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA68&dq=marge%20schott&pg=PA65#v=onepage&q=marge%20schott&f=false Cincinnati Magazine Aug 1986 http://books.google.com/books?id=RB8DAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA53&dq=marge%20schott&pg=PA51#v=onepage&q=marge%20schott&f=false Toledo Blade - Feb 4, 1993 http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=rycxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=aAMEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6329%2C737959 Columbia Law School Transcripts of MLB Hearing: https://coursewebs.law.columbia.edu/coursewebs/cw_13F_LAW_L9110_001.nsf/0f66a77852c3921f852571c100169cb9/8A127707E77F36D385257BF90064FC9A/$FILE/Decision+of+Executive+Council+in+the+Matter+of+Marge+Schott+.PDF?OpenElement
Venue named for Racists:[edit]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marge_Schott_Stadium
Irony of Award being Renamed[edit]
Irony of Award being Renamed, for great athlete exposed as prostitute, but stadium retaining name of a Bigot:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/2013/07/02/favor-hamiltons-name-stripped-from-big-ten-award/2482843/