» August 7, 1991: Schottzie, the St. Bernard mascot of the Cincinnati Reds, is put to sleep. The dog is buried at team owner Marge Schott's home, with a Reds' cap on its head.

» November 13, 1992: Former Reds marketing director Charles Levy, in a deposition in support of fired Controller Tom Sabo's suit against the Reds, says Marge Schott referred to former Reds Eric Davis and Dave Parker as "million-dollar niggers." He also says she had a swastika arm band at home. Roger Blaemire, a former veep, testifies that he also heard her use racial slurs.

» November 14, 1992: Marge Schott issue a statement saying. "I am not a racist." On the 20th she will issue a statement saying her use of the word "nigger" and owning the Nazi arm band were not meant to offend.

» November 29, 1992: Marge Schott is quoted in today's NY Times as saying, that Adolph Hitler was initially good for Germany, that her references to "niggers" was in jest, and she couldn't understand why the word "Jap" was offensive. The ML will appoint a 4-man committee to investigate Schott.

» December 9, 1992: Marge Schott appears at the major league baseball winter meetings in Louisville and apologizes for insensitive remarks. Florida Marlins president Carl Barger dies from a heart attack at age 62. Despite the pall cast over the gathering by the death, the players' agents scoop up $228 million dollars worth of contracts in the five days of the meeting. Because of the auction-like atmosphere, the owners will terminate the winter meetings for the next six years.

» February 3, 1993: Cincinnati Reds owner Marge Schott is fined $25,000 and banned from the day-to-day operation of her team for a year, resulting from her reported use of ethnic and racial slurs.

» March 14, 1993: The Reds announce that Schottzie 02, the St. Bernard owned by Reds president Marge Schott, is being banned from the field at Riverfront Stadium for the season.

» November 1, 1993: Cincinnati Reds owner Marge Schott returns to take over the day-to-day operations of the Reds following her 9-month suspension for using racial and ethnic epithets.

» May 18, 1994: The Cincinnati Enquirer quotes Marge Schott as saying she doesn't want her Reds players to wear earrings, because "only fruits wear earrings." She will later clarify her statement saying she was "not prejudice against any group, regardless of lifestyle preferences." Dodger P Roger McDowell buys earrings for the whole team and they will wear them in the clubhouse in Cincinnati: Tommy Lasorda doesn't allow them to wear them on the field.

» June 5, 1995: Reds owner Marge Schott is cleared of any wrongdoing by a jury in the Tim Sabo's suit about wrongful firing. Sabo was fired in August 1991.

» April 1, 1996: At Riverfront Stadium, umpire John McSherry calls time from behind the plate and collapses on the field with a massive heart attack and dies. The popular McSherry, a veteran of 21 seasons, had been suffering from a series of medical problems, aggravated by his weight of 328 pounds. The game, just seven pitches old between the Reds and Expos, is called, though owner Marge Schott feels otherwise: "Snow this morning and now this. I don't believe it. I feel cheated. This isn't supposed to happen to us, not in Cincinnati. This is our history, our tradition, our team. Nobody feels worse than me." Schott, who will later apologize, says it with flowers instead. But the Dayton Daily News will report on the 28th that the flowers she sends were given to her by television station covering the Reds.

» April 12, 1996: Reds fans are again able to get out of town scores at Riverfront Stadium. In a cost-cutting move, owner Marge Schott had canceled the score-reporting service to save the month fee of $350.

» April 14, 1996: Minutes before the start of the 2nd game with the Astros at Cincinnati, Reds' owner Marge Schott walks on the field to apologize to Larry Vandover and the umpiring crew for her remarks following the death of John McSherry. Crew chief Harry Wendelstedt is mystified, saying, "I had no idea what she was doing out there." The Reds take the 2nd game 9–8 after winning the opener, 5–3.

» May 5, 1996: In an interview aired tonight, Reds owner Marge Schott sticks her foot in her mouth again when she says that Hitler "was good in the beginning, but went too far." Schott's answers come in response to a question about her continued possession of a swastika. Schott's views of Hitler are almost verbatim to those she expressed in 1992, which resulted in a league fine and a year's suspension.

» May 7, 1996: In another announcement out of Cincinnati, Marge Schott issues an apology for her laudatory comments about Adolph Hitler made last Sunday. Acting commissioner Bud Selig says, "we will continue to monitor the situation."

» June 12, 1996: Reds' owner Marge Schott is again forced to relinquish day-to-day control of the team, this time through the 1998 season, because of her continual use of offensive remarks. Team controller John Allen will run the team, though Schott will retain her majority ownership.

» February 15, 1999: The Cincinnati Reds announce that they are dropping their long-standing policy of no facial hair for players. The change is the result of a talk between owner Marge Schott and newly-acquired OF Greg Vaughn.

» April 20, 1999: Cincinnati Reds owner Marge Schott agrees to sell her controlling interest in the Reds to a group headed by Carl H. Lindner, ending her 14–year tenure. The group will pay a total of $67 million.

» September 15, 1999: Baseball approves the sale of the Cincinnati Reds to Carl Lindner for $67 million, ending Marge Schott's 15-year reign as owner.