The controversial owner of the Cincinnati Reds baseball team who was suspended from baseball in 1993 and forced to undergo sensitivity training for using ethnic and racial slurs, gave up her controlling interest in the team Tuesday. Marge Schott drew the ire of the Jewish community when she described Hitler as someone who got highways built and factories humming. She later apologized in a television interview, saying Hitler was “good at the beginning, but he just went too far.”
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