Following his death, the Jon Egging Trust was set up by his widow, Dr Emma Egging, his mother Dawn, childhood friend James Godley and Red Arrows' pilot Ben Plank.
Valentine navigated his Boston premiere with precision, deferring to new Red Sox general manager Ben Cherington at times and resisting the kind of digs and pokes that made him not everyone's favorite as a manager but irresistible as an ESPN analyst.