If Derek Jeter wants to rid Marlins Park of its $2.5 million home-run sculpture, a top county official says he first needs artist Red Grooms’ approval to move the government-owned installation. And Grooms says he wants his artwork to remain right there behind center field.
“What I would like is for it to stay there,” Grooms said Tuesday night from his New York home. “I wish it would just stay there and be hit in the bean with baseballs.”
Grooms plays a central role in Jeter’s stealth request to remove the seven-story sculpture titled “Homer,” which the county commissioned for the 2012 opening of the tax-funded ballpark in Little Havana.