Longtime broadcaster will be inducted along with former team president and CEO
The team announced Friday that Leitner, the longtime radio broadcaster for the Padres from 1980 through 2020, and Lucchino, the club’s president and CEO from 1995 to 2001, will be inducted into the Padres Hall of Fame before the July 7 game against the San Francisco Giants.
“If not for Larry Lucchino,” former Padres owner John Moores once said, “there’d be no new ballpark.”Larry Lucchino and former Padres owner John Moores after finishing up their first news conference with the team, Jan. 11, 1995, in San Diego.
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