As president of the Baltimore Orioles, he helped build the beloved Camden Yards ballpark. He later would follow that up with a new ballpark for the San Diego Padres.
FILE – Boston Red Sox president Larry Lucchino, right, tips his cap to fans as majority owner John Henry holds the 2013 World Series championship trophy during a parade in celebration of the baseball team’s win, Saturday, Nov. 2, 2013, in Boston. Larry Lucchino, the force behind baseball’s retro ballpark revolution and the transformation of the Boston Red Sox from cursed losers to World Series champions, has died. He was 78.
A Pittsburgh native who played on the Princeton basketball team — captained by future U.S. senator and basketball Hall of Famer Bill Bradley — that reached the 1965 NCAA Final Four, Lucchino went on to Yale Law School and worked on the House Judiciary Committee investigating the Watergate scandal. He landed a job with Washington lawyer Edward Bennett Williams and soon found himself working on Williams’ sports teams, the Washington NFL franchise and the Baltimore Orioles.
President and CEO of the Boston Red Sox Larry Lucchino, , Red Sox principal own John Henry , and Red Sox chairmanTom Werner show off the World Series trophies to the crowd at Fenway Park before the Red Sox players board the duck boats for the World Series victory parade for the Boston Red Sox on November 2, 2013 in Boston, Massachusetts.
But an even bigger overhaul was taking place in the Red Sox front office, and on the field. After hiring as general manager the 28-year-old Theo Epstein — who started with the Orioles as an intern and followed Lucchino to the Padres — the Red Sox ended an 86-year championship drought, and then won three more World Series through 2018.
“There are so many of us who were given our start in baseball by Larry,” Kennedy said. “He instilled in us, and so many others, a work ethic, passion, competitive fire that we will carry forever. His legacy is one that all of us who were taught by him feel a deep responsibility to uphold.”
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