In a panel with Cubs fans Saturday morning at this year’s Cubs Convention, team chairman Tom Ricketts revealed that the newly-crafted Statue Row outside Wrigley Field will be getting an addition prior to the 2023 season.
Hall of Famer, 10-time All-Star and former NL MVP Ryne Sandberg will be honored with a statue outside the Friendly Confines, making the upcoming bronze work the fifth statue of a Cubs player to be erected outside the park.
Statues of Cubs legends Ernie Banks, Ron Santo, Billy Williams and Fergie Jenkins are currently lined up near Gallagher Way as Statue Row, an arrangement that began before the 2022 season when the Jenkins statue was constructed.Sign up for NBC Chicago newsletters.Long known as one of the strongest hitting second basemen of his generation, Sandberg's elite glove made him one of the most complete players of the era, collecting seven Silver Slugger awards and nine Gold Gloves.
Sandberg's hallmark season came in just his third full MLB campaign in 1984, leading the Cubs to the postseason for the first time in 39 years behind a campaign that won Ryno the NL MVP.
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