Artists Sought For Sports Commemoration Project

The City of Mobile and the Mobile Arts Council are calling on interested artists and architects to submit concepts for a project that will commemorate Mobile’s local sports icons. The City plans to establish a “Hall of Fame Courtyard” near Cooper Riverside Park to honor the five Mobilians inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame (Henry “Hank” Aaron, Satchel Paige, Billy Williams, Ozzie Smith and Willie Lee McCovey), as well as other sports legends from Mobile, including Houston Oiler and NFL Hall of Famer Robert Lorenzo Brazile, Jr. The concept includes nine-foot bronze statues, and concepts are being sought for locals to design, create, deliver and install them. Equally important to the statue design, the Mobile Arts Council said, is the landscape design and placement of the statues on their pedestals.