{"id":25056,"date":"2024-06-15T01:39:25","date_gmt":"2024-06-15T08:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cbs26.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/15\/wichita-to-unveil-rebuilt-robinson-statue-aug-5\/"},"modified":"2024-06-15T01:39:25","modified_gmt":"2024-06-15T08:39:25","slug":"wichita-to-unveil-rebuilt-robinson-statue-aug-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cbs26.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/15\/wichita-to-unveil-rebuilt-robinson-statue-aug-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Wichita to unveil rebuilt Robinson statue Aug. 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=\/i\/columnists\/full\/olivieri_anthony.png&amp;h=80&amp;w=80&amp;scale=crop\" alt width=\"40\" height=\"40\"><\/p>\n<p>Anthony Olivieri, ESPN.com<span>Jun 7, 2024, 06:fifty three PM ET<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>A early life baseball league in Wichita, Kansas, will unveil a brand fresh Jackie Robinson statue Aug. 5, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/39395754\/jackie-robinson-statue-cut-ankles-stolen-wichita-park\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">replacing the brand new work<\/a> that used to be decrease from the inappropriate, eliminated and vandalized earlier this yr, Bob Lutz, executive director of League 42, instructed ESPN on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Artwork Castings of Colorado, an art foundry 50 miles outside of Denver, is developing the replacement statue. The artist, John Parsons, died in 2022, however the foundry is utilizing his popular mildew.<\/p>\n<p>Ricky Alderete, Forty five, used to be arrested after the statue went missing in January. He <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/40119289\/kansas-man-pleads-guilty-theft-jackie-robinson-statue\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pleaded responsible closing month<\/a> to theft and other charges. He may possibly possibly face more than 19 years in the abet of bars when he&#8217;s sentenced July 1, the district licensed expert&#8217;s place of job instructed ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>The employ of surveillance video, police said as a minimum three of us assemble been most up-to-date when the statue used to be decrease, leaving the bronze replicas of Robinson&#8217;s cleats in the abet of. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/39584850\/jackie-robinson-statue-cleats-headed-negro-leagues-baseball-museum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cleats assemble been donated<\/a> to the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas Metropolis, Missouri. No other arrests assemble been made.<\/p>\n<p>The statue, which police said used to be valued at $75,000, used to be stolen from McAdams Park, the build League 42 plays its games. Police assemble said they rep no longer judge the crime to be racially motivated, per what they know today. As an more than just a few, they judge it used to be &#8220;motivated by the financial form of scrapping classic steel.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/40300077\/rebuilt-jackie-robinson-statue-unveiled-august-5\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Olivieri, ESPN.comJun 7, 2024, 06:fifty three PM ET A early life baseball league in Wichita, Kansas, will unveil a brand fresh Jackie Robinson statue Aug. 5, replacing the brand new work that used to be decrease from the inappropriate, eliminated and vandalized earlier this yr, Bob Lutz, executive director of League 42, instructed ESPN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,5,2760,1685],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.5 - 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