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Marge Schott Wont Be Down for Breakfast!
Looks lkie another person has bite the dust.
Schott sold controlling interest of Reds in '99
Associated Press
CINCINNATI -- Marge Schott, the tough-talking, chain-smoking former owner of the Cincinnati Reds who won a World Series but was repeatedly suspended for offensive remarks, died Tuesday, a hospital spokeswoman said. She was 75.
Schott was hospitalized about three weeks ago for breathing difficulties, said Christ Hospital spokeswoman Dona Buckler. She did not release a cause of death.
Schott kept a low profile after she ended years of turmoil by selling her controlling interest in the club in October 1999. She appeared at news conferences when she made donations to the zoo and other local organizations.
She remained a limited partner in the team's ownership group, and sued owner Carl Lindner because she didn't like her seats in the new Great American Ball Park, where the Reds moved in 2003.
Her outspokenness as owner became her legacy and her downfall.
Schott had inherited and expanded her husband's business empire after he died in 1968. Until she took over the Reds in the mid-1980s, she was known as a car dealer who made campy television commercials featuring her beloved St. Bernards.
Once she got control of the front office, she became one of the most prominent figures in the history of baseball's first professional team.
The Reds won the 1990 World Series, sweeping the Oakland A's while Schott rubbed dog hair on manager Lou Piniella and his players.
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