A 1983 World Series Championship Ring, a Wheaties box signed by Hall of Fame pitcher Jim Palmer and other rare Baltimore Orioles memorabilia will be sold to the highest bidder in an online auction of items from the estate of former team president Larry Lucchino, who died in April at the age of 78.Bonhams Skinner, an auction house in Boston, is handling the sale, which began Nov. 23 and ends on Dec. 4 at 1 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. The auction website can be accessed here.Lucchino was a lawyer and sports executive who led three Major League Baseball teams in his career –  the Orioles (President from 1988 to 1993); the San Diego Padres (President and CEO from 1995 to 2001), and the Boston Red Sox (President and CEO from 2002 to 2015). As president of the Orioles, he was instrumental along with team executive Janet Marie Smith in the design and construction of Oriole Park at Camden Yards. He led efforts to build a ballpark for the Padres and renovate historic Fenway Park for the Red Sox.  As chairman of the Worcester Red Sox, the Triple-A affiliate of the Boston Red Sox, he was instrumental in moving the team from Pawtucket, Rhode Island, and building Polar Park for the team in Massachusetts.Called “Curse-Breaker: The Collection of Larry Lucchino,” the auction contains more than 200 lots from Larry Lucchino’s estate and several dozen more sports-related lots from a nephew, David Lucchino. Most of the items are related in some way to Larry Lucchino’s career. Proceeds from the auction will go to the non-profit Lucchino Family Foundation, which supports charities in New England.A box of Wheaties cereal signed by former Baltimore Orioles player Jim Palmer. Photo courtesy of Bonhams Skinner auction site.Twenty-two lots – Numbers 59 to 80, with the exception of lot 76 – have connections to the Baltimore and the Orioles. Highlights include: the 1983 Orioles World Series Championship Ring (valued at $15,000 to $25,000); Four Camden Yards seats (valued at $2,000 to $3000); two lots with one Camden Yards seat (each valued at $500 to $700), a LeRoy Neiman serigraph depicting and signed by Palmer (valued at $600 to $800), and a Wheaties box signed by Palmer (valued at $100 to $200.)A Camden Yards Opening Day Ceramic Charger from 1992 is among the items being auctioned off by Bonhams Skinner. Photo courtesy of Bonhams Skinner auction site.Some items are related to the first game and first season at Oriole Park, including two Camden Yards Opening Day Ceramic Chargers from 1992 (each valued at $100 to $200), and a decanter and set of four Camden Yards Inaugural Season glasses, (valued at $100 to $200.) There are three Orioles tickets mounted in Lucite (valued at $200 to $400); a bat used by Kiko Garcia (valued at $100 to $200) and numerous other Orioles items, including caps, jerseys, a poster, prints, photos and other framed items.  One lot is related to former Orioles owner Edward Bennett Williams. It’s Number 70 in the catalog: two bound books titled “Acquisition of the Assets of the EBW Properties, Inc., by The Orioles, Inc.” with a gold-embossed Orioles logo and legal documents, in two volumes, 1 and 3 (valued at $1,000 to $1,500).A 1983 Baltimore Orioles World Series Champions commemorative black bat stamped with players’ signatures. Photo courtesy of Bonhams Skinner auction site.Orioles items from David Lucchino include a 1983 World Series Champions Commemorative Black Bat; a 1989-1990 Orioles team-signed bat; a 1993 MLB All-Star Game ring; a bat signed by Boog Powell and a group of Orioles player- and manager-signed baseballs.Auction items related to the Red Sox include Lucchino’s Commissioner’s Trophy from the 2013 World Series (valued at $30,000 to $50,000); a ring from the 2004 World Series (valued at $50,000 to $75,000); three other championship trophies from Lucchino’s tenure in Boston; championship banners that flew at Fenway Park; seats from Fenway Park, and an electric guitar signed by members of the rock band Aerosmith when they played at Fenway Park in 2010.Other non-Orioles items include: a Super Bowl ring from the Redskins in 1982; a Redskins National Football Conference Ring from 1983; a baseball with the Presidential Seal on it signed by former President George Bush; a portrait of Babe Ruth as a member of the Red Sox and a shovel from the groundbreaking event for Polar Park.Framed photos depict a visit by Queen Elizabeth II to the United States, when President George H.W. Bush brought her to a Baltimore Orioles game. The Queen shook hands with Cal Ripken Jr. and other Orioles players. Photo courtesy of Bonhams Skinner auction site.For autograph hounds, many of the sale items are signed by famous athletes, musicians and others, including Muhammad Ali; Lance Armstrong; Tom Brady; David Ortiz; Peyton Manning; Larry Bird; Kareem Abdul Jabbar; Joe DiMaggio; Jimmy Buffett; Eunice Shriver. Carl Yastrzemski; Larry Bird; President Joe Biden and former Vice President Dick Cheney.Smith, a noted architect and urban planner who is now Executive Vice President of Planning and Development for the Los Angeles Dodgers and also heads a sports strategy and design firm, Canopy Team, said she is hopeful that one or more Orioles fans will buy the Orioles-related items and give them a home where they can be shared with the public.She noted that when team-related items from former Orioles manager Earl Weaver went up for auction, a bidder donated them to the Babe Ruth Birthplace and Museum, the official museum of the Baltimore Orioles and Baltimore Colts.Mike Gibbons, the former executive director and now director emeritus and historian of the Babe Ruth Birthplace and Museum, “said when the Earl Weaver auction happened he was interviewed about what he might like to see in the museum,” Smith said in an email message. “He answered and then someone saw it and bought the stuff to keep in Baltimore. Wonder if we brought attention to this here if anyone would think to buy the Camden Yards items for Babe Ruth Museum to keep.”Gibbons said he is aware of the auction, thanks to Smith, and the museum’s leaders would welcome donations from the sale.“I looked over the menu of items and saw his ’83 WS ring, which would be a terrific artifact to display,” Gibbons said in an email message. “Actually anything from his Orioles collection that could come our way as a donation or loan would be terrific.”Gibbons said the Lucchino auction contains other items that are of interest as well.“In that we are the Babe Ruth Museum, something of his from the 2004 Curse of the Bambino World Series, like maybe third base or a ring or trophy would be outstanding.”He also confirmed what Smith said about the Earl Weaver auction.“Years ago when Weaver auctioned off his stuff, an article ran in The Sun the day before, I think, asking if we would like anything from the auction. I said his HOF ring would be terrific, along with one of his jerseys with the cigarette pouch inside, left front. A man called me the morning of the auction and said he’d go after them. He did and they are both on display now at the museum!”