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County shelves plan to move home-run sculpture from Marlins Park to Miami’s Museum Park | Miami Herald

The home-run sculpture Derek Jeter doesn’t want in Marlins Park would move to Miami’s Museum Park under a detailed county plan to accommodate the new team owner by finding an alternative spot for the seven-story homage to Florida kitsch. The county says the plan, drafted weeks ago, is “dead” and that the hunt continues for a new place for the “Homer” sculpture.

Renderings created by Miami-Dade County show the fish-festooned sculpture towering above pedestrians at the waterfront city park, its mechanical marlins clearing the palm trees that line the eastern shoreline. A draft term sheet written last month for the Marlins requires the team to pay for dismantling the $2.