In my previous post about the Mets, I mentioned that is was funny how bad ownership usually means bad teams.
It got me to thinking, which owner of the modern era was the worst who won a World Series?
Immediately I thought of Marge Schott whose Reds won the 1990 World Series in a sweep over the Athletics.
She was racist, calling her black players "million dollar niggers." She was anti-Semitic with her comments that Adolph Hitler was originally good for Germany. She slandered any group you can think of from gays to Asians.
As for the baseball side of things, she didn't want to hire scouts because all they do is "sit around and watch baseball games." Plus, her stupid dogs were always crapping on the field.
She also "felt cheated" that Opening Day in 1996 was postponed in the first inning when umpire John McSherry died from a massive heart attack. She wanted the game to continue and said, "Nobody feels worse than me." Really? How about McSherry's family? His fellow umpires? All of baseball?
Marge Schott was a horrible human being. A loud mouth, chain-smoking buffoon who inherited her husband's fortune when he died in 1968. Why did he die? He wanted to! Actually, word is he died in the bathtub of his mistress from a heart attack. If I was married to Marge, I'd have a mistress, or several too.
So while there have been terrible owners who have won World Series titles, I'd have to say that Marge Schott was the worst of them all. By far. How the Reds ever won the World Series in 1990 is a mystery to me.
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