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By JIMMY GOLENMay 6, 2021 GMT
WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) Concrete is curing, saws are buzzing, and Larry Lucchino is at home again, in a ballpark.
At an age when many ease into retirement, the 75-year-old three-time cancer survivor instead headed to the minor leagues for one more chance to run a baseball team and build it a new home.
“I don’t think (retirement) is the way I’m wired,” Lucchino said this spring during an interview in the upper deck at the $118 million Polar Park. “I want to keep doing and being and making and contributing.”