BOSTON (AP) — A Boston auction house is bringing bidders to the ballpark with an online sale of Red Sox memorabilia belonging to a team executive, including four World Series trophies.
Items belonging to former Red Sox president and CEO Larry Lucchino, who died in April at age 78, will be auctioned off starting Saturday with proceeds going to The Lucchino Family Foundation, which funds charities throughout New England .
“My brother, Larry, embodied the spirit of generosity,” said Frank Lucchino, a retired Pennsylvania judge.
Items include the Commissioner’s Trophy and Lucchino’s ring from the 2004 World Series that ended the “curse.” First, the Red Sox had to beat the New York Yankees to have a chance to face the St. Louis Cardinals in the Fall Classic.
Two other championship trophies from Lucchino’s tenure, from 2007 and 2013, are also being auctioned along with one more from 2018.
Other items include the 2004 and 2007 championship pennants that flew at Fenway Park, a pair of stadium seats and a turnstile, as well as an electric guitar signed by Boston rockers Aerosmith in 2010, when they played Fenway Park.
Lucchino served as president of the Baltimore Orioles, where he spearheaded the effort to build Camden Yards, before doing the same for the San Diego Padres, building a new stadium. In Boston, he helped form the new ownership group led by John Henry and Tom Werner that purchased the franchise in 2002.
The group opted to renovate Fenway Park, rather than replace it.
The online auction is managed by Bonhams Skinner. Included in the auction were items not related to the Red Sox but owned by Lucchino, including a World Series ring won with the Orioles and a Super Bowl ring from Washington.
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This story was translated from English by an AP editor with the help of a generative artificial intelligence tool.
