Executive who built Camden Yards cemented San Diego legacy with downtown gem
President and CEO Larry Lucchino. He fought through 17 lawsuits, two years of delays and an endless political thicket to usher through the roughly $456 million anchor of San Diego’s invigorated downtown.
Lucchino, 76, won one World Series ring as president of the Orioles and three more after leaving the Padres to take over as president and CEO of the Red Sox in 2002. He also is a Super Bowl champion from his time in the front office with NFL’s Washington franchise and owns a Final Four watch as a member of Princeton’s 1965 basketball team.
The story of Lucchino’s road to re-envisioning ballparks is not simply about what he did, but with whom he did it. The next stop was law school at Yale, where Lucchino became a classmate of another future presidential candidate, Hillary Rodham Clinton.“We got to know each other pretty well the following year when we worked on the Watergate investigation and the impeachment of Richard Nixon,” Lucchino said. “It was a very distinguished and diverse group.The breakthrough into professional sports came after Lucchino was hired as an attorney at the famed Williams & Connolly firm in Washington, D.C.
Tasked with breathing life into the Orioles new stadium, Lucchino recalled those days in Pittsburgh. He dreamed of blending feel and function. He again leaned on that thinking in San Diego.“We wanted traditional, old-fashioned ballparks with modern amenities,” Lucchino recalled. “If we said that one time, we said it 1,000 times. They both reflect their town. We wanted that.
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