It’s no news to anyone in Boston that the Red Sox haven’t won a World Championship since 1918. During most of the years since then, the team has been owned by Tom Yawkey, his wife Jean, or a trust in their name. This season marks the first time since 1933 that a Yawkey or Yawkey-related entity hasn’t controlled the team.

The new ownership group includes, among others, entertainment mogul Tom Werner, former owner of the San Diego Padres; John Henry, former owner of the Florida Marlins; and former Maine senator George Mitchell. The frontman is co-owner Larry Lucchino, who worked as president and CEO of the San Diego Padres and Baltimore Orioles before coming to Boston. Lucchino’s credited with having masterminded the construction of Baltimore’s Camden Yards, the waterfront ballpark considered the pinnacle of new American baseball stadiums. Freshly arrived in Boston, Lucchino took time to speak with the Phoenix, his new neighbor in the Fenway.

Q: How do you find Boston so far?

A: I just got up from spring training. It’s pretty early on. I feel a lot of excitement in the town. I feel a lot of buzz about the team.

Q: What about the possible new ballpark location?

A: We’re focusing on two things right now. First, there are the improvements and amenities we want to bring to Fenway right away. We’re doing that right now. And then we’re also conducting a review of all the recommendations and suggestions and plans and ideas for a new ballpark over the next six months or so.

Q: In July 2000, state leaders voted to give the Red Sox $312 million for the construction of a new ballpark next to the original Fenway site — which would include the land on which the Phoenix sits. Are you going to look at that plan, too?

A: We’re going to look at everything again. Our campaign promise, if you will, was to have a plan that seriously contemplated the possibility of improving and to examine sincerely the renovation of a first-class Fenway.

Q: When you look at the history of the Boston Red Sox and you look at the agony that has gone on over the years — is that something you really wanted voluntarily to be a part of, especially as somebody who’s not from the area?

A: I am from the area now. I live here now. I resent that I am now an adopted son. I’m proud of the history and tradition of the city. I see passion here. There is difficulty in what to do about a basic ballpark decision.

Q: What do you think about Game Six against the Mets or the Bucky Dent game?

A: I feel like it’s an exceptional challenge. I wouldn’t say that everything seems to go wrong. There have been some historic things that have gone wrong, and you cited two of them, but I do think that baseball is a game of averages. Sooner or later, they’re bound to turn around.

Q: What do you think was the most helpful experience you had before landing with the Red Sox to get you ready for this kind of environment?

A: Everything I’ve done. The Redskins, the Orioles, the Dodgers, the Padres was preface for this. This is the biggest challenge and the biggest opportunity, and I feel lucky to have had years of preparation and to have two partners here in Tom [Werner] and John [Henry] who have years of baseball experience, so we don’t come into this circumstance unready.

Q: Before you became involved with the Red Sox, what intrigued you about the team?

A: Boston is one of the jewels of baseball. There’s a great market in Boston, and it has one of the historic ballparks. It’s one of the great challenges, the better challenges, in baseball.

Q: And that’s something people in baseball are aware of?

A: The Red Sox have an exceptional profile in baseball.

Q: How have you gone in and investigated Fenway itself? Have you walked around?

A: We’ve walked around to see some of the amenities and improvements we’re trying to get in place. There are some back-of-the-house issues — the infrastructure, the plumbing — that will require some special scrutiny.

Q: What about those scalpers around Fenway Park?

A: I know it’s a problem. I just spoke to a fan today about it. He wanted to make sure we took it seriously. We have already launched an internal investigation to follow up on it.

Q: What’s your personal timetable for bringing a World Series Championship to the city of Boston?

A: I’m too superstitious to answer that.

Seth Gitell can be reached at sgitell[a]phx.com