When Hasbro announced earlier this month that it would replace one of the eight game pieces in its classic Monopoly with a new piece to be chosen by popular vote, Phillips Lytle associate Richard Marinaccio knew what he had to do.
Richard Marinaccio
In 2009, Marinaccio bested 27 challengers in the game’s national championships in Washington, D.C., becoming America’s Monopoly champion and reaping a $20,580 prize, the amount in Monopoly’s bank. And he did it with the most humble of game pieces, the thimble. Now, Marinaccio is asking Monopoly players to stand up for his favored piece, and his firm is standing behind him. On Jan. 11, the firm issued a press release to spread Marinaccio’s call to give “thumbs up for the thimble.”
