Three More Schott Allegations

Three more allegations of racism were made against Marge Schott on Wednesday, and two of her co-owners with the Cincinnati Reds asked for her resignation.

Limited partners George Strike, a Cincinnati businessman, and Carl Kroch of Chicago, who owns a chain of bookstores, issued a statement demanding that Schott resign as the team’s general partner and chief executive officer if she made racial slurs attributed to her.

“We feel that there’s no place in baseball for bigotry or racial slurs,” Strike said. “Too many reports of Mrs. Schott’s racial slurs have occurred for us to remain silent.”

Schott did not return telephone calls to her office.

USA Today and the San Francisco Chronicle reported the new allegations.

Roger Blaemire, who directed the Reds’ business operations for nine months in 1985-1986, told the Chronicle he heard Schott refer to a black player as a “nigger” in September of 1985, during a meeting in the Reds’ offices.

Blaemire, who won a judgment against Schott after he was fired in 1986 and settled out of court, also told the newspaper she had called Melvin and Herb Simon “Jew bastards” while he was negotiating with TicketMaster, which the Simons own.

Keith Stichtenoth, a former employee in the Reds’ ticket office, told USA Today he heard Schott make a reference to “Jew bastards.”

Joe Pfaffl, president of a management-consulting firm and Butler County Republican finance chairman in Ohio, told USA Today that Schott made comments about outfielder Dave Parker on a plane flight after the Reds had traded him to Oakland in December, 1987.

“She was bragging that she’d just traded that ‘goddamned nigger,’ ” Pfaffl told the newspaper. “She said, ‘We got rid of that trouble-making nigger.’ ”