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Shortly after legendary baseball executive Larry Lucchino died in the spring of 2024, an idea started to form in the mind of Assumption University president Greg Weiner.
And that vision came to fruition earlier this week with the announcement of the Larry Lucchino Institute for the Study of Sports, which will be unveiled as part of Assumption’s curriculum in the fall of 2027.
While Lucchino was fulfilling the final chapter of his highly successful career as chairman and principal owner of the Triple-A Worcester Red Sox, he formed a partnership with Assumption, which is located in Worcester.
“Assumption had made an agreement with Lucchino and Jack Verducci [the leader of corporate partnerships with the WooSox] to be one of the WooSox's 21 founding partners,” said WooSox president Dr. Charles Steinberg. “That means they were making a substantial investment in us, and they wanted to be the leading higher education partner [affiliated with the WooSox] and it's been a really good relationship ever since.”
Assumption has served as a...