“We’ve been working on exploring a potential statue option for a couple of years in coordination with the [Seaver] family,’’ DePaoli said. “We won’t be unveiling a statue this season. We will unveil the plans of what it will look like sometime on that [‘69] weekend.”
DePaoli said Thursday at Citi Field that the street name change would be unveiled in a June 27 ceremony to help kick of the ’69 Mets anniversary weekend. (Via Newsday)
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DePaoli is the Mets CRO.
Fantastic news.
As for Francesa, his quote was, “There will be a Seaver statue sometime this summer.” So not accurate, and I still think he was winging it. Whatever, Tom is getting a statue.