1. Lawrence Lucchino was an American lawyer and Major League Baseball executive.
22 Facts About Larry Lucchino
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Larry Lucchino served as president of the Baltimore Orioles, president and chief executive officer of the San Diego Padres, and president and CEO of the Boston Red Sox.
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Lawrence Larry Lucchino was born on September 6,1945, in Pittsburgh.
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Larry Lucchino graduated from Taylor Allderdice High School, and attended Princeton University, where he played college basketball.
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Larry Lucchino earned a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School, where he was a classmate of Hillary Clinton.
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Larry Lucchino became president of the Baltimore Orioles, serving from 1988 to 1993, and president and CEO of the San Diego Padres, serving from 1995 to 2001.
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Larry Lucchino was known for having initiated the trend of building baseball-only facilities with an old-fashioned charm and smaller seating capacities.
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Larry Lucchino helped build Padres teams that made the playoffs in 1996 and 1998.
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Larry Lucchino was named to the Padres Hall of Fame in 2022.
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Larry Lucchino brought future general manager Theo Epstein with him to the Red Sox from the Orioles and the Padres, having encouraged Epstein to attend law school while he was working at the Padres.
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Larry Lucchino "always enjoyed a strong connection with Big Papi throughout his entire career".
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Larry Lucchino hired Janet Marie Smith to initiate a nearly $300 million renovation project of Fenway Park over the next ten years, including the Green Monster seats.
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Larry Lucchino is credited with coining the term "Evil Empire" for the New York Yankees.
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Larry Lucchino was a key figure in the relocation of the franchise to Worcester, Massachusetts, becoming the Worcester Red Sox for the 2021 minor league season.
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Larry Lucchino previously served on the board of directors for Special Olympics.
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Larry Lucchino was a commencement speaker at several colleges in the New England area, including Boston University, New England School of Law, Bryant University, and Anna Maria College.
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Larry Lucchino was the only person known to have World Series rings, a Super Bowl ring and a Final Four watch.
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Larry Lucchino was inducted into the Boston Red Sox Hall of Fame in 2016, and into the San Diego Padres Hall of Fame in 2022.
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Larry Lucchino was inducted into the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame, the National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame, and the Taylor Allderdice High School Hall of Fame.
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Larry Lucchino was named chairman of The Jimmy Fund in 2016.
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Larry Lucchino was a non-Hodgkin lymphoma survivor, undergoing radiation treatment in 1986 after his diagnosis in September 1985.
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Larry Lucchino was married to Stacey Johnson, and he adopted her two children, Davis and Blair.