Former Reds owner Schott dead at 75

Yahoo News ^ | March 2, 2004 | Yahoo News

[AgentEcho]

CINCINNATI (Ticker) - Former Cincinnati Reds owner Marge Schott, whose rocky tenure featured a World Series title and a litany of controversial comments, died Tuesday. She was 75.

Schott died at The Christ Hospital, where she had been hospitalized for several weeks due to a recent illness, the nature of which was not disclosed.

A heavy smoker, Schott had been hospitalized on several occasions in recent years.

Schott became general partner of the Reds' ownership group in 1984 and was named president and chief executive officer a year later.

Her highlight as owner came in 1990, when the Reds swept the favored Oakland Athletics in the World Series. But the outspoken Schott routinely drew the ire of players, media and other baseball management for inflammatory comments.

[AgentEcho]

For what it's worth...

[anniegetyourgun]

I wonder if anyone will want to be seen at her memorial service.

[Sir Gawain]

Sorta funny title.

[Thinkin' Gal]

[veronica]

Gallows humor. :)

[brownsfan]

One less very crazy, mean, old woman in the world.

[RightWhale]

Lots of changes today. Except in the DNC.

[AgentEcho]

I hadn't noticed, but you're right.

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[Clemenza]

I met Mrs. Schott when I was 10. She came across as a very nice woman, who talked to me for about twenty minutes and gave me my autograph. She had her faults (largely due to bitterness over her husband's death) and paid the price as a result.

[Clemenza]

Correction: Gave me HER autograph.

[quark]

"In a 1996 television interview, Schott praised the start of Adolph Hitler's rule in Germany, claiming, 'when he came in, he was good.' Schott also made comments disaparaging to African Americans, Asians and gays."

Yeah, but that didn't make her a bad person...

[L.N. Smithee]

She came across as a very nice woman, who talked to me for about twenty minutes and gave me my autograph.

Well, now we know the secret of her wealth. She was skilled at forging documents.

[hoosierham]

Wouldn't bother me.

The lady was un-pc, but people seem to forget her contributions to charities,the Boy Scouts,and that she was ridiculed for paying high salaries to black players.

One Cincinnati cartoon pictured her turning over te keys to her house to a black ballplayer,who assured her she could visit the dog on Tuesdays(?); just who was the racist in that situation ?Extra points if you said the liberal news media without prompting.

[nkycincinnatikid]

"will anyone be seen at her memorial service"
I expect a huge turnout of commoners and even some higher profile cowards who shrunk from her defense in life. Here was a woman who demonstrably loved and sought to promote the interests of animals, children, and the community she had been reared within. She spoke her mind without shame and without reguard for consequences in a shamelessly politically correct world. She had a big heart and a simple, honest mind, and true grit. She will be (sadly posthumously) honored by many ,many indeed.

[jeremiah]

I always liked the lady. Seems to me she was one of the early targets of the PC police. Hitler came in not unlike many others, showed some promise to turn around Germany. OMYGAWD, I must be a Hitler lover. I also drove a VW bug.

As for the unstated comments disparaging minorities, probably similar to John Rockers comments, crude but true.

[MurryMom]

The lady was un-pc, but people seem to forget her contributions to charities,the Boy Scouts,and that she was ridiculed for paying high salaries to black players.

Can we puhleeze stop using the terms "politically incorrect" and "controversial" for unapologetic racists like Marge Schott???

Don't forget this woman kept a Nazi arm band in her desk drawer, was quoted as saying Hitler was "good at the beginning" and that she would "rather have a trained monkey than a nigger", and was unable to comprehend why the term "Jap" was offensive. Will we next be saying that KKK members like David Duke are "un-pc"?

[hoosierham]

NO.

Marge Schott did more good despite being labeled racist than a lot of calculating people who keep blacks enslaved to gov't handouts,housing projects,and affirmative action quoatas that are CURRENT INSTITUTIONALIZED declarations of blacks being inferior and unable to stand on their own feet.