Dick Bresciani

Who is Dick Bresciani?

Richard L. Bresciani became the Red Sox’ Vice President/Publications and Archives in 2003 after serving as Vice President of Public Affairs since November, 1996. He had been Vice President of Public Relations since August 1987. Dick joined the Red Sox in May, 1972 as assistant public relations director, became publicity director in 1978 and public relations director in June, 1984.

Bresciani oversees all Red Sox publications, the club’s historical archives and alumni. He coordinates the selections of the annual national Tony Conigliaro Award recipient and the Red Sox Hall of Fame inductees. He was chairman of the Red Sox Task Force Committee for the 1999 All-Star Game.

Dick is on the Board of Directors of the BoSox Club, the Red Sox official booster club, and the Cape Cod Summer Baseball League. He was part of the first group inducted into the Cape Cod League Hall of Fame in January 2001 and is on their Hall of Fame selection committee. In 2003, Dick was inducted into the UMass Athletic Hall of Fame and serves on their selection committee. On November 9–10, 2006, Bresciani was inducted into the Red Sox Hall of Fame as the non-uniformed personnel selection and also into the New England Italian-American Sports Hall of Fame. He was the recipient of the Boston Press Photographers Association’s Sports Personality Award in 2007.