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Amalie Zara Benjamin is the Boston Red Sox beat reporter for the Boston Globe. Benjamin began her journalism career in 2001 as a stringer for the Community Newspaper Company in Needham, Massachusetts. While in Northwestern University she was a contributor to and sports editor for the Daily Northwestern ’s weekly football magazine Gameday. She joined the Boston Globe after graduating from college and initially covered high school sports. After the departure of Chris Snow from the Globe in 2006, she started covering the Red Sox as the backup beat reporter and also worked as general assignment sports reporter. After the departure from the Globe of Gordon Edes in August 2008, the Globe promoted her to Red Sox beat writer. In addition to her columns in the Globe, Benjamin now regularly appears on the New England Sports Network ’s (NESN) Red Sox pre-game show to discuss the team.
Thomas Brady, Sr., is a successful businessman, running an insurance firm based in San Mateo, CA. He is also the father of four outstanding athletes including daughters Maureen, Nancy and Julie and son Tom Brady Jr. who plays for the New England Patriots. He and his wife Galynn created a home environment that fostered talent, competition and closeness.
Steve Buckley is an Irish American journalist and a 1978 graduate of the University of Massachusetts. He is a regular columnist with the Boston Herald since 1995, contributing to the papers Sports section. His columns often use historical perspective drawn from a diverse variety of sources. He joined Boston Sports radio station WEEI in 1993, and has been a regular on the station ’s The Big Show since its debut in 1995. He also makes regular appearances on New England Sports Tonight on CSN New England and on WBZ-TV ’s Sports Final. Prior to joining the Herald, he was a columnist with the National Sports Daily. A member of the Baseball Writers Association of America, he is an ardent supporter of Bert Blyleven ’s induction into the National Baseball Hall of Fame, often stating his case on WEEI. In 1999 he wrote and produced "I ’ll be Seeing You: An American Story of World War II," a one-hour documentary, for NECN. He received a New England Emmy for best sports feature in 1998. He has also been a frequent guest on SportsDesk on NESN. In addition to his regularly appearing columns, he has written numerous articles for Boston Magazine, Yankee Magazine and other periodicals and several books. His latest book Wicked Good Year chronicles the Celtics, Red Sox, and Patriots during the 2007 season. It was published in November of 2009. Buckley organizes a yearly event, The Old Time Baseball Game, played at St. Peter ’s Field in Cambridge, MA. The game celebrates the U.S. national pastime as it was played around the turn of the century. The game is noted for the collection of authentic wool uniforms the players don to play.
Pamela Carey received a B.A. from Colby College in Waterville, Maine, and an M.A. from Columbia University Teachers College in NY, NY. She was the State of Delaware's Information Director for the Department of Education in Dover, Delaware, from 1965-1966. After obtaining her M.A., she taught junior and senior high school English in Connecticut, Georgia, and Maine. Changing careers, she returned to Rhode Island School of Design for an advanced degree in interior design. She opened her own firm, Interiors by Pamela, which she operated for fourteen years in Cumberland, Rhode Island. There, she taught adult education and served as President of the Woonsocket YWCA Board of Directors, as well as President of PTA groups, Hockey and Baseball Mothers' Clubs, Book Club, and Newcomer's Club. She served as Chairperson of the Rally for a Cure Breast Cancer Foundation Golf Tournament at Acoaxet Country Club in Westport, Mass. Pamela resides in both Delray Beach, Florida, and Westport, Mass. She is involved in numerous philanthropic activities, and spends her free time writing and playing on a South Palm Beach County tennis team. She is married and enjoying life as the grandmother of three little girls! For more information about her book, Minor League Mom, please visit www.minorleaguemom.net.
Todd Carey, a vice president of J.P.Morgan Private Bank, has also worked for Battery Ventures and Lehman Brothers. He played for the Red Sox minor leagues from 1992-1998.
Ben Cherington, senior VP/assistant general manager for the Boston Red Sox, has long focused on player development, minor league affairs and scouting. He joined the Red Sox in 1999 and served director of player development for seven years. A graduate of Amherst College, where he played four years of varsity baseball and served as an assistant coach for one year, Cherington earned a Master ’s degree in sports management from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst in 1997. He served as a video advance scout for the Cleveland Indians before joining the Red Sox.
Thomas R. DiBenedetto, partner, Boston Red Sox, serves as director of Alexander ’s Inc. He has been president of Boston International Group, Inc., an investment management firm, since 1983; president of Junction Investors Ltd., another investment management firm, since 1992; a director of NWH, Inc., a software company, and managing director of Olympic Partners, a real estate investment firm, and a director of Detwiler, Mitchell & Co., a securities firm.
Raquel Ferreira has served as director of minor league operations for the Boston Red Sox since 2007. Prior to that, Ferreira was director of minor league administration from 2001 to 2006.
Born and raised in Abington MA, Mike Hazen was on the track to being a professional ball player until an injury changed that plan. In 2000, he joined the business side of the Cleveland Indians, serving a variety of positions over five years including assistant director of player development. In 2005, Theo Epstein recruited Hazen to join the Boston Red Sox, where he has served as director of player development for the past five years.
In October 2009, Sam Kennedy was named executive vice president/chief operating officer and and president of Fenway Sports Group (FSG), a wholly-owned subsidiary of New England Sports Ventures, the parent company of both the Red Sox and NESN He oversees Corporate Sponsorships, Ticketing, Broadcasting, Marketing, Fenway Enterprises and Client Services. Previously, Kennedy served as executive vice president/chief sales & marketing officer. Kennedy joined the Red Sox in 2002 after five seasons with the San Diego Padres, where he tripled sponsorship revenues and played a key role in the sales and marketing strategy for the Padres’ new downtown ballpark, Petco Park. A graduate of Trinity College, he was raised in Brookline and now resides in Wellesley with his wife, Amanda, and their two children.
Bill Littlefield, nationally known author and veteran sports commentator, hosts WBUR and National Public Radio ’s Only A Game, a weekly one-hour sports magazine. Littlefield has provided audiences with a weekly tour through the world of sports since 1993 from WBUR in Boston. The show has covered a wide range of sports topics, from the basics of who wins and loses to issues such as racism and career opportunities for the disabled. His publications include: Keepers: Radio Stories from Only A Game and Elsewhere; Baseball Days, a collection of essays with photographs by Henry Horenstein.
Jed Carlson Lowrie (born April 17, 1984 in Salem, Oregon) is a Major League Baseball infielder for the Boston Red Sox. In 2004, Lowrie, a switch-hitter infielder, while playing for Stanford, earned Pac-10 Player of the Year honors. He was a First Team All-American in 2004 and 2005. From 2005 through 2007, Lowrie played for Boston at three different minor league levels. During the 2007 season, he made the Eastern League All-Star team, was named the Portland Sea Dogs Most Valuable Player, and the Red Sox Minor League Offensive Player of the Year as well. He was promoted to Triple-A Pawtucket late in the season. Lowrie was called up from the minor leagues on April 10, 2008 after Mike Lowell was placed on the DL. He made his debut on April 15, driving home three runs in a 5-3 victory in Cleveland.
Born in Roslindale, MA, Skip Lockwood played ball for 12 years, pitching for the Milwaukee Brewers ('70-'73), the New York Mets ('75-'79) and the Boston Red Sox ('80). After his baseball career, Skip graduated MIT's Sloan School of Management, one of the very few MLB players to attend MIT. Kathy Lockwood recently published Major League Bride: An Inside Look at Life Outside the Ballpark. Married 40 years and parents of five children, the Lockwoods have much to share with baseball lovers of all ages.
Larry Silverstein, partner at Bingham McCutchen, focuses on tax, corporate and real estate planning and has been extensively involved in partnership and real estate transactions as well as corporate acquisitions. After law school, he clerked for the Hon. Herbert P. Wilkins, chief justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts. He left the firm for two years in the mid-1980s to become president of Cohen Properties Inc., a 130-employee, diversified real estate management and development company, which developed and acquired more than $200 million of real estate during the two years he served as president. Larry is a graduate of Dartmouth College (1970) and Harvard Law School (1973).
Janet Marie Smith has a storied career which joins the best of urban planning, good design and sports venues. She is much revered in Boston and throughout New England for her work with the Boston Red Sox (2002-2009). Smith served as senior vice president of planning and development where she oversaw the renovation of Fenway Park which added 5000 seats including premium seating on top of the Green Monster; the new Coca-Cola Corner; and new club houses while removing the glass from the 406 Club. The extraordinary results may have helped to reverse the curse. Last summer, Smith returned to her position of vice president of planning and development for the Baltimore Orioles, where she is overseeing renovations for their spring training facility in Sarasota, Florida, and upgrades for Camden Yards. Camden Yards, built during her previous stint with the Orioles (1989-1994), created new standards of excellence in design for contemporary urban ballparks. Smith played a key role in making that happen. She has also served as advisor for Struever Bros. Eccles & Rous; president of Turner Sports and Entertainment Development (a division of the Turner Broadcasting System); and vice president of planning and development for the Atlanta Braves. She lives with her family in Baltimore, Maryland.
Tom Tippett joined the Red Sox as director of baseball information services in 2009 after working as a consultant to the team since 2003. He was the founder and president of Diamond Mind, Inc. and developed its computer baseball simulation game first released in 1987. A longtime member of the Society for American Baseball Research, Tom won the USA Today Baseball Weekly prize for the best research presentation at the 2002 national SABR convention. From 1998 to 2004, he wrote and/or edited more than a hundred articles for ESPN.com. Tom was born and raised in Toronto. He earned a degree in Mathematics from the University of Waterloo in 1981 and an MBA from the Harvard Business School in 1985.
Larry Tye was a prize-winning journalist at The Boston Globe and a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. An avid baseball fan, Tye now runs a Boston-based training program for medical journalists. He is the author of The Father of Spin, Home Lands, and Rising from the Rails and co-author, with Kitty Dukakis, of Shock. He lives in Lexington, Massachusetts. For more info, visit www.larrytye.com.
