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- <text id=93TT2488>
- <title>
- Feb. 15, 1993: Schott Out of the Park
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Feb. 15, 1993 The Chemistry of Love
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 18
- SOCIETY
- Schott Out of the Park
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- <body>
- <p>The Cincinnati Reds owner is suspended for alleged racial slurs
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- <p> 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 a suspension. Schott won't be
- allowed in the owner's box to watch the Reds, but she can sit
- in an executive suite. She'll stay involved in major decisions,
- and gets to pick someone to control the team's day-to-day
- operations in her absence. Ironically, Schott may end up making
- other owners look bad in contrast. Recently she hired a Hispanic
- manager, one of just six minority managers in the majors.
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- </body>
- </article>
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