A Major League Baseball umpire was suspended for using an anti-Semitic slur against a league administrator. Bruce Froemming reportedly called umpires administrator Cathy Davis a “stupid Jew bitch” after Froemming was chastised for not allowing the league to handle his travel arrangements for an umpiring trip to Japan. Froemming later apologized.
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