An Icon across the City

It’s kind of like rounding up a group of guys to paint their faces and chests before the big game… except this time the Statue of Liberty is invited. Walking all across the city this weekend, I’ve run into at least a couple of the Statue of Liberty replicas scattered across Manhattan to generate citywide buzz for the upcoming All-Star Game (to be held at Yankee Stadium on July 15). The replicas are each 8.5 feet tall and painted in a different set of team colors. The 42 statues include: “each of the 30 Major League Baseball clubs, the Brooklyn Dodgers, the New York Giants, the American League, the National League, four All-Star statues and statues commemorating the final season of Yankee Stadium and Shea Stadium, an additional version for the host Yankees, and one to be determined to be painted by the artist as a surprise.” It’s only fitting that the MLB has given a makeover to an icon as American as the Statue of Liberty to complement a sport as American as baseball, but I highly doubt even the biggest baseball fans are hunting over the city to find them all.