Baseball

While baseball’s decision-makers maintained their silence, Hank Aaron, a vice president for the Atlanta Braves, called for Cincinnati Red owner Marge Schott to be suspended for her remarks about blacks and jews. Aaron, baseball’s all-time home run leader and its second-highest black executive, said he considers Schott’s remarks more serious than those that led to the firing of Al Campanis, the Dodger general manager, in 1987.

Donald Fehr, the head of the players’ association, called Schott’s statements distressing, and the Washington Post ran an editorial condemning baseball’s inaction.