Fans can step up to the plate for Red Sox CEO memorabilia up for auction
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Fans can step up to the plate for Red Sox CEO memorabilia up for auction

A Boston auction house will take bidders to the ballpark with an online auction of a manager’s Red Sox memorabilia — including four World Series trophies.

Items belonging to former Red Sox president and CEO Larry Lucchino, who died in April at the age of 78, will be auctioned off starting Saturday with proceeds going to The Lucchino Family Foundation, which funds charities throughout New England.

“My brother, Larry, embodied the spirit of generosity,” said Frank Lucchino, a retired Pennsylvania judge.

Items include Lucchino’s Commissioner’s Trophy and ring from the cursed 2004 World Series in which the Red Sox first had to beat the New York Yankees for the opportunity to face the St. Louis Cardinals in the series. Two other championship trophies from Lucchino’s tenure, 2007 and 2013, are being auctioned along with another from 2018.

Other items include championship banners from 2004 and 2007 that flew at Fenway Park, a pair of stadium seats and a turnstile, and an electric guitar signed by Boston rockers Aerosmith when they played at Fenway in 2010.

Lucchino served as the president of the Baltimore Orioles and led the effort to build Camden Yards, before doing the same for the San Diego Padres and building a new ballpark. In Boston, he helped assemble the new ownership group led by John Henry and Tom Werner that purchased the franchise in 2002. The group chose to renovate Fenway Park, rather than replace it.

The online auction is managed by Bonhams Skinner. Included in the auction were non-Red Sox items owned by Lucchino, including a World Series ring won with the Orioles and a Super Bowl ring from Washington.