The Red Sox Don’t Need John Henry and Tom Werner

Photo By Winslow Townson/Getty ImagesJoan Kroc was better than all of us. As the wife of Ray Kroc, the founder of McDonalds, she had more money than she could ever spend. There are plenty of billionaires and multi-millionaires who fit that description. But, unlike Joan Kroc, most members of the Super PAC-funding class operate under the delusion that they actually deserve their money, that divine providence has seen fit to make them a master of the universe. So they don’t do what Joan did, which was spend most of her adult life giving the money away.

The Salvation Army was her favorite cause. In 1998, she spent $87 million to turn an abandoned grocery store in the San Diego neighborhood of…