University of Massachusets Athletics
Hall of Fame
Dick Bresciani
- Induction:
- 2002
- Class:
- 1960
Dick Bresciani's association with UMass Athletics dates to his undergraduate days in Amherst, when he worked in the school's sports information office for CoSIDA Hall of Famer Dick Page and covered the Redmen for the Massachusetts Daily Collegian.
After graduation, the Hopedale, Mass., native spent 11 years as UMass' first assistant sports information director, working with each of the school's athletic teams. In 1968, he and former athletic director Warren McGuirk established the UMass Athletics Hall of Fame, honoring greats Harold "Kid" Gore and multi-sport star Lou Bush in the first class.
Bresciani is also credited with establishing the weekly Varsity M Club Luncheons (the forerunner of today's popular UMass Sports Luncheon), purchasing travel blazers with a Varsity M patch for the football players to wear on road trips and hanging banners from the Curry Hicks Cage rafters to recognize the men's basketball team's postseason appearances.
Bresciani was on a nine-month contract with the athletic department, so he spent the summers from 1967-71 as director of public relations and statistics for the Cape Cod summer baseball league. During his time on the Cape, the league received full NCAA accreditation and subsequent financial grants from Major League Baseball. He was recognized for his efforts by being inducted into the first Cape Cod League Hall of Fame class on Jan. 20, 2001.
From UMass, the popular Bresciani was called up to the Major Leagues and was hired in May of 1972 by the Boston Red Sox as the team's assistant public relations director. He was promoted to publicity director in 1978 and public relations director in June of 1984, before being selected vice president in 1987. In November of 1996, Bresciani was into the role of vice president of public affairs and club historian.
Bresciani was inducted into the UMass Athletics Hall of Fame in 2002.
After graduation, the Hopedale, Mass., native spent 11 years as UMass' first assistant sports information director, working with each of the school's athletic teams. In 1968, he and former athletic director Warren McGuirk established the UMass Athletics Hall of Fame, honoring greats Harold "Kid" Gore and multi-sport star Lou Bush in the first class.
Bresciani is also credited with establishing the weekly Varsity M Club Luncheons (the forerunner of today's popular UMass Sports Luncheon), purchasing travel blazers with a Varsity M patch for the football players to wear on road trips and hanging banners from the Curry Hicks Cage rafters to recognize the men's basketball team's postseason appearances.
Bresciani was on a nine-month contract with the athletic department, so he spent the summers from 1967-71 as director of public relations and statistics for the Cape Cod summer baseball league. During his time on the Cape, the league received full NCAA accreditation and subsequent financial grants from Major League Baseball. He was recognized for his efforts by being inducted into the first Cape Cod League Hall of Fame class on Jan. 20, 2001.
From UMass, the popular Bresciani was called up to the Major Leagues and was hired in May of 1972 by the Boston Red Sox as the team's assistant public relations director. He was promoted to publicity director in 1978 and public relations director in June of 1984, before being selected vice president in 1987. In November of 1996, Bresciani was into the role of vice president of public affairs and club historian.
Bresciani was inducted into the UMass Athletics Hall of Fame in 2002.
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