Word: schott
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Baseball, to be sure, is like the nation that created it: too resilient to be counted out no matter how dire the forecasts. If the game can survive cartoonish owners (George Steinbrenner, Marge Schott), self-indulgent players (the entire New York Mets roster), 19th century labor relations and a defrocked commissioner (the job has been vacant since Fay Vincent was forced out a year ago), perhaps this latest wild-card wackiness will prove to be little more than an unfortunate rain delay. But don't wait till next year; this may be our last and best September...
When very big people in Washington find themselves in very big trouble, they dial 202-371-7000. Washington's consummate fixer Clark Clifford did; so did former Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger. Even Marge Schott, of Cincinnati Reds infamy. The number gets them the prestigious firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom -- and access to Robert Bennett, Washington's new superlawyer. Not since 1973 has a jury trial sent a Bennett client to prison -- and he got that client off with three years for second-degree murder instead of 20 years for first...
GEORGE STEINBRENNER FOR MARGE SCHOTT -- IS that a fair baseball trade? The bigots' Mrs. Malaprop begins her year's suspension from the Cincinnati Reds just as Steinbrenner, the sport's most belligerent, beguiling owner, returns to the New York Yankees, 2 1/2 years after he was ousted as managing partner by Fay Vincent, then the commissioner. With Schott you got Schottzie 2, her drooling St. Bernard. But George needs no dog. He can growl at reporters, fetch overpriced free agents and bite the occasional manager. He can do everything but heel...
PICK YOUR BASEBALL METAPHOR: MAJOR LEAGUE baseball owners could have benched Marge Schott, called strike three, hit her with a pitch. Instead they balked, bunted, let her off easy. Charges that the Cincinnati Reds owner used such phrases as "dumb lazy nigger" and "dirty Jews" led the owners' executive council to fine her $25,000 and give her a one-year suspension starting March 1. Schott is a millionaire, so the fine is just lunch money; if she behaves herself and attends "multicultural training programs," she can return to baseball by Nov. 1 -- more of a seventh-inning stretch than...
JUST AS CINCINNATI THOUGHT IT MIGHT LIVE DOWN the embarrassing Marge Schott affair came yet another specter of bigotry: taking advantage of a federal court decision that forced the city to permit a huge Hanukkah menorah in a public square, the Ku Klux Klan erected a tit-for-tat wooden cross nearby. Though this particular cross was not afire, its sponsorship by the hate group inflamed local opinion. A day before its erection, hundreds gathered in a candlelit protest. Hours after the appearance of the Klan krucifix, a pair of demonstrators toppled and trampled on it -- but the Klan...