R.I.P. Dick Bresciani

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Sad day. A legion of sportswriters, producers, researchers, historians and filmmakers will have nothing but glowing things to recall about this guy.
 
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Longtime Red Sox publicist Dick Bresciani passed away Saturday after a long illness. He was 76.

Bresciani had been a Red Sox publicist since 1972 and was previously assistant sports information director at the University of Massachusetts. He also served 11 years as the Cape Cod League’s top statistician. Bresciani eventually took over from Bill Crowley as the head Red Sox public relations man.

He became vice president of publications and archives in 2003. There was nobody who had the depth of knowledge of Red Sox history more than Bresciani, who also helped adopt the current rules for which a Red Sox player’s number is retired.

Bresciani worked for the Yawkey regime under Mrs. Jean Yawkey, Haywood Sullivan, and Buddy Le Roux, as well as the John Harrington and John Henry eras of Red Sox ownership.

He also oversaw the nominations for the national Tony Conigliaro award and also oversaw Red Sox inductees into the Baseball of Fame, promoting the candidacies of prominent Red Sox players.

In 2006, Bresciani was inducted into the Red Sox Hall of Fame. In 2003, Bresciani was inducted into the UMass Athletic Hall of Fame, and in 2006 to the New England Italian-American Hall of Fame. He’s also received the Robert O. Fishel Award for Public Relations Excellence in Major League Baseball.

Bresciani was a graduate of Hopedale (Mass.) High and the University of Massachusetts with a degree in journalism.
 
 
 

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I knew he wasn't well but I'm very sorry to hear this news.  I reached out to Dick in the mid-80s and began a long distance correspondence.  He was kind enough, for instance, to arrange for Yaz to sign a photo of him taken right before his final AB.
 
We met a few times in the press box at YS over the years and he couldn't have been nicer.
 
In the "Win It For" thread, I singled him out as the person I hoped the Sox would win it for.  When I sent him a congratulatory note after the 2004 WS, he couldn't have been more gracious.  No surprise.
 
RIP, Bresh.
 

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As the bat boy for the Orleans Cardinals from 1964-68, Dick was incredibly nice to people like me. When I ran into him in the late 1970's at Winter Haven, we had a fun time reminiscing about the old Cape days. What a gentleman. RIP, my good man.