What should a statue of Brooks look like?

[El Gordo]

The problem with the statue idea is that you either have to be extremely selective (as in, Cal gets one and that's it) or somewhat broad. If Brooksie gets one, why wouldn't Frank Robinson deserve one? Palmer? Earl Weaver? Eddie Murray? Etc etc.

Brooks is more than an Oriole to Baltimore. I have no problem with a statue in front of OPACY where everyone, including those who can't afford a ticket can see it.

[Owen21]

My understanding is that it was a done deal; not at OPACY, but at "a plaza west" of OPACY. Is that the area in front of Pickles and Sliders where all the vendors set up?

I'd simply use the shot of Brooks in his fielding croutch, ready to pounce in any direction.

A plaza west can have a statue of a vacuum cleaner with third base next to it.

FYI: Brooks on one knee in the on deck circle would make a nice statue.

[isestrex]

Here's my preferred stance:

<img src="http://usera.ImageCave.com/isestrex/PDVD_003.JPG">

[Old#5fan]

Roy Firestone has been beating his drum about how we need a statue of Brooks at OPACY for quite some time. Forget whether we need one -- if we had one, what would you want it to look like?

I think one thing we can agree on is that he'd have a glove on his hand. Here are some possibilities:

- Laid out to his backhand side, snaring a ball in his glove.

- Laid out on his glove side, holding the ball out to show the ump he'd caught it

- Picking up a bunt, arm cocked, ready to throw across his body.

- Arm cocked, ready to throw from foul territory, as in his great 1970 WS play.

- Leaping in the air, huge grin on his face, after the O's won the 1966 Series (kind of hard to do in a statue).

I have to say, the sculptor would have a lot of fun with this one.

While all of these are truly great choices :clap3:, the two choices I would like the most and maybe so would Brooks (as he is a humble man) would between one where he is just crouched and ready for the pitch (leaning forward at the height of readiness) or one replicating the famous Norman Rockwell painting where he is signing an autograph for a kid!

[Sports Guy]

It should look like Ripken.

[BaltimoreTerp]

This statue should NOT be across the street in front of a bar.

Good, because it isn't

I agree with you and others, though, about that image. If you asked most baseball fans to picture Brooks Robinson in their mind I'm sure that's what they would see.

[RShack]

If anybody deserves a statue, it's Brooks. My main problem is that most baseball statues don't do justice to whoever they're supposed to be. I think most of them are mediocre corny attempts that aren't worthy of the player. If there's one thing we don't need, it's a lousy statue of Brooks just so people who insist on human-form statues will hush-up. I'd hate that.

Too bad it can't be a statue of all the hitters who wound up cussing because of him. If they're gonna do a human-form statue of Brooks, it needs to either (a) convey motion, like him diving to his right and catching a ball that was supposed to be a double, or else (b) show him being nice to some little kid, which is what he mainly did when he wasn't on the field.

But I'm very dubious that any such statue would do justice to the man. Rather than having some crappy baseball statue that's less-good than Brooks was, I'd much rather have a big number 5 that's about 80 feet tall. That would have way more impact that any crappy statue would have.

[El Gordo]

If anybody deserves a statue, it's Brooks. My main problem is that most statues don't do justice to whoever they're supposed to be. I think most of them are mediocre corny attempts that aren't worthy of the player. If there's one thing we don't need, it's a lousy statue of Brooks just so people who insist on human-form statues will hush-up. I'd hate that.

Too bad it can't be a statue of all the hitters who wound up cussing because of him. If they're gonna do a human-form statue of Brooks, it needs to either (a) convey motion, like him diving to his right and catching a ball that was supposed to be a double, or else (b) show him being nice to some little kid, which is what he mainly did when he wasn't on the field.

But I'm very dubious that any such statue would do justice to the man. Rather than having some crappy baseball statue that's less-good than Brooks was, I'd much rather have a big number 5 that's about 80 feet tall. That would have way more impact that any crappy statue would have.

Yeah I knew this guy:

He looked more like this:

[Carllamy]

I would do a statue of Brooks in the broadcast booth, and I would make it an audio-capable statue so that passers-by could listen to Brooks mispronounce Rick Burleson's name, over and over.

Plus, one could listen to the commercial for, what was it, All-Star Dodge?

[El Gordo]

[TonySoprano]

The image on the right is what first came to mind, but the more I think about it, I don't care for an image of him laying on the ground. <img src=http://imagecache5.art.com/p/LRG/9/936/E2TX000Z/brooks-robinson--diving-catch-sepia.jpg></img>

<img src=http://www.walterpaytonsroundhouse.com/media/gallery/brooksrobinson.jpg></img> I'd rather have him standing tall, ready to pounce, in a "Baltimore" jersey.

<img src=http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/business/consuminginterests/blog/testudo.jpg></img> Univ. of Maryland students and alumni recognize this statue

The tradition was to rub Testudo's nose for good luck.

It'd be cool if on any Brooks statue, people were able to do the same on his glove, so it would take on a golden shine apart from the rest of the statue, in honor of his gold gloves.

[RShack]

It'd be cool if on any Brooks statue, people were able to do the same on his glove, so it would take on a golden shine apart from the rest of the statue, in honor of his gold gloves.

Or if they made the statue bronze, but made the glove-part out of something that kept looking like gold while the rest of it oxidized...

(They could use real gold except some animal would saw it off and melt it down.)

[BaltimoreTerp]

The image on the right is what first came to mind, but the more I think about it, I don't care for an image of him laying on the ground. <img src=http://imagecache5.art.com/p/LRG/9/936/E2TX000Z/brooks-robinson--diving-catch-sepia.jpg></img>

<img src=http://www.walterpaytonsroundhouse.com/media/gallery/brooksrobinson.jpg></img> I'd rather have him standing tall, ready to pounce, in a "Baltimore" jersey.

<img src=http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/business/consuminginterests/blog/testudo.jpg></img> Univ. of Maryland students and alumni recognize this statue

The tradition was to rub Testudo's nose for good luck.

It'd be cool if on any Brooks statue, people were able to do the same on his glove, so it would take on a golden shine apart from the rest of the statue, in honor of his gold gloves.

Or if they made the statue bronze, but made the glove-part out of something that kept looking like gold while the rest of it oxidized...

(They could use real gold except some animal would saw it off and melt it down.)

I'm pretty sure that if you go down and look at the Unitas statue at M&T Bank Stadium, the shoes have that shine to them from people rubbing them. You don't really need any special metal other than what you make the statue from.

[Mackus]

The image on the right is what first came to mind, but the more I think about it, I don't care for an image of him laying on the ground. <img src=http://imagecache5.art.com/p/LRG/9/936/E2TX000Z/brooks-robinson--diving-catch-sepia.jpg></img>

<img src=http://www.walterpaytonsroundhouse.com/media/gallery/brooksrobinson.jpg></img> I'd rather have him standing tall, ready to pounce, in a "Baltimore" jersey.

<img src=http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/business/consuminginterests/blog/testudo.jpg></img> Univ. of Maryland students and alumni recognize this statue

The tradition was to rub Testudo's nose for good luck.

It'd be cool if on any Brooks statue, people were able to do the same on his glove, so it would take on a golden shine apart from the rest of the statue, in honor of his gold gloves.

Those are some awesome pictures.

Does anyone know any place to get MLB prints for framing that don't have that stupid small blue circle in the bottom right corner? I've looked into getting some photos of Ripken and others but I can't stand that little logo.

[RevOlution]

This is what his statue looks like out front on 5 Brooks Robinson's Way at Sovereign Bank in York,PA.

http://www.yorkrevolution.com/brooksrobinson.cfm

Sorry, it's not a very good pic, but it shows Brook's in the middle with a young girl to the left and young boy to the right on him. He's signing an autograph for them.

Another pic of him standing along of the statue further down the page.