Larry Lucchino, former Red Sox executive who won three World Series rings in Boston, dies at 78 [Video]

Larry Lucchino, who served as president of the Boston Red Sox when the team ended its 86-year World Series drought in 2004, died Tuesday. He was 78. No cause of death was given. Lucchino was a cancer survivor who was treated for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in the 1980s, prostate cancer in 1999, and kidney cancer in 2019.

“To us, Larry was an exceptional person who combined a Hall of Fame life as a Major League Baseball executive with his passion for helping those people most in need,” his family said in a statement. “He brought the same passion, tenacity, and probing intelligence to all his endeavors, and his achievements speak for themselves.”

A Pittsburgh native, Lucchino attended Yale Law School and later practiced in Washington D.C., which led to a position on the board of the directors with the NFL’s Washington franchise. He then became president of the …