Larry Lucchino

Lawrence Lucchino, (born September 6, 1945 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is the current President and CEO of the Boston Red Sox, and a member of John W. Henry's ownership group.

Larry Lucchino, left, reacts to a sacrificial Baby Ruth bar, presented by two US Army soldiers in 2005

Lucchino graduated from Princeton University in 1967, and later attended Yale Law School.

At Princeton, Lucchino, an athlete in his own right, was on the basketball team with Bill Bradley who later became an NBA star and United States Senator from New Jersey. After law school, Lucchino practiced law with the Washington, D. C. law firm of Williams & Connolly. The founder, famed litigator Edward Bennett Williams, had ownership interest in both the Washington Redskins and the Baltimore Orioles. Lucchino's law practice at Williams & Connolly included a substantial amount of work for those two sports teams. Through that work he ultimately became President/CEO of the Baltimore Orioles and later, the San Diego Padres. Under his watch, both teams built new stadiums Oriole Park at Camden Yards and Petco Park. Lucchino is known for having initiated the trend of building baseball-only facilities with an old-fashioned charm and smaller seating capacities, as was accomplished when he conceived Camden Yards in the early 1990s. Since then, about one-half of Major League Baseball’s 30 teams built new stadiums with the old-style look and feel.

Other information

Lucchino was named as the Commencement speaker for Boston University's 2008 graduating class and Bryant University's Class of 2009. He was also the Commencement Speaker for the Anna Maria College Class of 2010. He was also a guest speaker at New England School of Law's 2008 graduation ceremony.

Lucchino is the only man known to have World Series rings (Orioles ’83, Red Sox ’04 and ’07), a Super Bowl ring (Redskins ’83) and a Final Four watch (Princeton, ’65)

His Contract with the Red Sox is up at the end of the 2011 Season.

Controversy surrounds Larry Lucchino as being the source of leaking information to Dan Shaugnessy in a 2005 article smearing Theo Epstein, as well as a 2011 Article smearing Terry Francona.

Videos

• Larry Lucchino: Keynote Address at Boston University's 135th Commencement Ceremony, on BUniverse, Boston University's video archive.

Sporting positions
Preceded by Dick Freeman	San Diego Padres President 1995–2001	Succeeded by Bob Vizas