Larry Lucchino, the Red Sox president and CEO from 2002-2015, has died at the age of 78. Lucchino celebrated three World Series championships as a Red Sox executive, including the astonishing 2004 title that ended the franchise's 86-year title drought.
Lucchino was also instrumental in saving Fenway Park, roughly ten years after he helped usher in a new standard for ballpark construction.
I remember all of the talk in the late 1990s about replacing the venerable park – and threats or promises to get rid of Fenway went back decades before that.