Campanis Has Served Enough of a Sentence
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On Jan. 12, Jesse Jackson told the 28 major league baseball owners that Marge Schott must be removed or suspended from baseball “for a period of time.”
I agree that baseball must take firm disciplinary action. I also agree that a period of time must be stipulated, to prevent the punishment meted out by Peter O’Malley in the case of Al Campanis.
Neither O’Malley nor the commissioner of baseball had stipulated whether Campanis had been banned for life. If a lifelong ban had been the intention, it must be lifted.
Criminals can receive a variety of sentences. Mr. Campanis is not a criminal. Mr. O’Malley should stop thinking of him in that light, and Mrs. Schott’s sentence should likewise not result in a lifetime ban.
PAUL H. ITO
Monrovia
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