The Mobile City Council's vote on Tuesday will be a crucial step toward highlighting a connection the Alabama city has with Major League Baseball that no other city its size can compare.
Mobile Mayor Sandy Stimpson, Billye Aaron, and Canfor president & CEO Don Kayne look up at a maquette of the Hank Aaron statue that will be placed at Cooper Riverside Park. The plans for the Hall of Fame Courtyard at the entrance to the park and next to the Arthur R. Outlaw Mobile Convention Center were unveiled during a ceremony on Tuesday, March 8, 2022, at the Convention Center in downtown Mobile, Ala. .
No city comes close, on a per capita basis, to Mobile when it comes to the number of homegrown Major League Baseball Hall of Famers. Only New York City – which is 42 times larger than Mobile – and Los Angeles, can claim more homegrown Hall of Famers in Cooperstown.Hank Aaron Stadium in limbo: Stadium vacant, city to void lease
“I think it helps tell our story a whole lot better,” Councilman William Carroll, who represents downtown Mobile, said. “I run into younger people all the time who have no idea and don’t realize that baseball was a major sport in Mobile played in every neighborhood and parks for years. The young people have no idea.”
While there are some private donations, the plaza’s overall price tag – now over $10 million – is paid for primarily through the city’s downtown tax-increment financing district. A TIF district in Alabama is a geographically defined area aimed at promoting economic development within its boundaries. As development occurs, the value of a property increases within the district and – as a result of rising property values – so do revenues generated by property taxes.
Major League Baseball unveils the logo for next year's game at Rickwood Field. From left, Mike Hill, senior vice president of on-field operations for Major League Baseball; MLB Network host Harold Reynolds, Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin and Gerald Watkins, chairman of Friends of Rickwood, unveil the branding for the 2024 MLB game at Rickwood Field.
Efforts are also underway to continue highlighting the city’s story with professional baseball beyond the plaza. A museum project is still under consideration across Water Street inside the RSA Renaissance Mobile Riverview Plaza Hotel. That location has been criticized by local baseball historians and players like Cleon Jones, a member of the New York Mets Hall of Fame and a resident of the Africatown community of Mobile. Jones toldin June that he would have preferred seeing the home relocated to a visible site in downtown Mobile near Heroes Plaza.
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