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USING THE WORD NIGGER GETS YOU KICKED OFF most teams. But since Marge Schott owns the Cincinnati Reds, she's probably not going anywhere. In depositions from a lawsuit filed against Schott by a former employee, several former Reds executives allege that they heard Schott refer to two players as her "million-dollar niggers." She denies using the phrase but admits using the N word. There are also charges that Schott has a swastika armband at home, but she argues that it's "memorabilia...
...Marge Schott is an evil woman, but her existence, like that of the self-centered and wasteful Czars, should not, cannot and God willing, will not be used to justify the implementation upon baseball of a system which would slowly strangle it and rob it of its noble traits. Uri Eugienivich
...Marge Schott...
Most successful people who want to give something back to their community settle for contributing money to a museum or joining the board of the town library. When Marge Schott decided to fulfill her civic duty, she invested in the local baseball team: the Cincinnati Reds. Schott, who had taken over her late husband's GM dealership, bought the club in 1984 for an estimated $11 million, and has become one of the game's highest profile owners. "It's really more than a 24-hour-a-day job," says Schott, 62. Nonetheless, she has managed to turn around...
...modest slowdown is necessary to suppress inflation, which had grown particularly stubborn in the past two years. Consumer prices rose at an annual rate of 5.9% during the first half of 1989, up from 4.1% last year. "The economy was running too fast for its own good," says Francis Schott, chief economist for Equitable Life Assurance. "It was working itself up to an inflationary frenzy...