Dick O'Connell

Richard Henry O'Connell

• School Boston College
• High School Winthrop (MA) High School

• Born September 19, 1914 in Winthrop, MA USA
• Died August 18, 2002 in Lexington, MA USA

Biographical Information

Dick O'Connell was General Manager of the Boston Red Sox from 1960 to 1962, assistant GM from 1963 to 1965 and GM again from 1965 to 1977. He was named The Sporting News Executive of the Year in 1967 and 1975.

He was an intelligence officer in the United States Navy during World War II. While serving in Pearl Harbor, he met Johnny Pesky and other members of the Red Sox organizations and was encouraged to drop by the team's offices to seek a possible job after his discharge. This is exactly what he did early in 1946, and he was offered the job of business manager of the Sox's new affiliate in the New England League, the Lynn Red Sox. Thus began a long association with the team.

Preceded by Bucky Harris

Boston Red Sox General Manager 1961-1962

Succeeded by Pinky Higgins

Preceded by Pinky Higgins

Boston Red Sox General Manager 1965-1977

Succeeded by Haywood Sullivan

Further Reading

• Kerry Keene: "Architect of a Baseball Renaissance: Richard 'Dick' O'Connell", in Bill Nowlin and Dan Desrochers, eds.: The 1967 Impossible Dream Red Sox: 'Pandemonium on the Field', SABR, Rounder Books, Burlington, MA, 2007, pp. 275-279. ISBN 978-1-5794-0141-2

Related Sites

• Dick O'Connell at the SABR Bio Project