The Baltimore Sun’s excellent coverage of the death of Larry Lucchino, who envisioned and oversaw the building of Oriole Park at Camden Yards as a new-old small, urban, baseball-only park that became the model for sports architecture in America, reminds me that he was probably the only person to earn World Series rings (Baltimore 1983 and Boston 2004, 2007, 2013), a Super Bowl ring (Washington 1983) and a Final Four wristwatch (Princeton 1965) (“Larry Lucchino, former Orioles president and CEO, dies at 78,” April 2).
Larry, a friend for more than 40 years, referred to Princeton’s Final Four team, in his typical, self-deprecating fashion, as “Bill Bradley and four other guys.” Larry also led the San Diego Padres to the World Series in 1998. One of the greats in Baltimore sports history. Larry was also chairman of The Jimmy Fund, the charitable arm of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
— Jim Hanks, Baltimore
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