MLB officials will review comments Reds Owner Marge Schott
from SI's cover story, according to Hal Bodley of USA TODAY.
Acting Commissioner Bud Selig said the comments are "just
something else we have to review." NL President Len Coleman: "I
will firmly state that baseball will not condone racial, ethnic
or gender stereotyping." In the piece, Schott "criticized Asian-
Americans, poked fun at Japanese prime minister Kiichi Miyazawa
and repeated her views that women do not belong in the workplace"
(USA TODAY, 5/16).
STRIKE IMPACT: A new study by Univ. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
sociologist John Zipp notes the strike has had "little if any
economic impact" on MLB cities. Zipp, using before-and-after
statistics from the Census Bureau for 24 of the 28 MLB cites and
four "control cities" without MLB teams, as well as data from
travel research firms, concluded that retail trade was "almost
completely unaffected by the strike, hotel room sales declined
slightly in 10 MLB cities, but also in three of the control
cities by around the same rate and the "statistically
insignificant" economic effect of the strike was the same for
both small and large market MLB cities. Zipp's study will be
published in November in the Urban Affairs Review (Eric Brazil,
S.F. EXAMINER, 5/15).
