December 9, 1992 - Marg Schott Apologizes - a podcast by Stephen Hammond

Cincinnati Reds’ CEO apologizes for racist comments. Marg Schott was one of baseball’s most outspoken and outrageous owners when she bought the Cincinnati Reds and became president and CEO of the team in 1985. Doing so, she became the first woman to buy a baseball team as opposed to inheriting it. During legal proceedings over the firing of the team’s controller, Schott made positive comments about Adolf Hitler and many racist slurs that leaked to the public. Although she claimed some of the comments were made in jest, and none were meant to offend, she was pressured into apologizing on December 9, 1992 during meetings between major league owners in Louisville. She was also given a year’s suspension from day-to-day operations with the Reds, fined $25,000, and later slapped with a second suspension for yet another set of derogatory comments. In 1999, she sold her shares in the Reds to avoid another suspension. Schott died on March 2, 2004 in Cincinnati.

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