User:CmdrDan/Marge Schott

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. 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:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marge_Schott_Stadium

Irony of Award being Renamed
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/