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Boston Red Sox president and CEO Larry Lucchino introduced a new game to the Kirkland House speaking circuit last night: Hot Potato...
...first time, Lucchino shook the hand of Wes Cosgriff...
...jacket, a shirt, a hat, a DVD of the team’s championship season, a baseball, and the last part—the best part—a letter. Lucchino, a man whom Cosgriff had never met, had himself survived cancer against the odds. Twice—in the mid-80’s with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, for which he received a bone marrow transplant, and in the 90’s for prostate cancer—Lucchino had experienced the twin hells of cancer and chemo...
...year after taking over, Henry and his CEO, Larry Lucchino, handed the team's reins to Epstein, the then 28-year-old assistant general manager. A Yalie who had grown up a mile from Fenway, Epstein was a data freak who did a sabermetric analysis on everyone in spikes. By the time he was finished dealing, Epstein had replaced 16 of Boston's 25 players. Before the 2004 season, he tried to pull off a stunning coup by bringing superstar shortstop Alex Rodriguez to Beantown. The deal fell apart, and Rodriguez eventually landed in New York. But Epstein had other...
...quickly found that all of the professional teams did in a way that I never thought possible. After all, Brookline was in the center of the Boston sports world. Red Sox General Manager Theo Epstein went to my high school; Patriots owner Robert Kraft and Sox president Larry Lucchino both call the town home; and the neighborhood is so close to Fenway Park, that I could hear Bruce Springsteen from my house when he played there last summer...