The Mets‘ long-awaited Tom Seaver statue will be unveiled Friday at Citi Field.
That got the ESNY team thinking: When the next New York sports statue is commissioned, who should it be? Here are our picks, team by team:
Yankees. The Yankees’ highest honor is a monument in Monument Park, and that only comes posthumously. Derek Jeter and Mariano Rivera will likely have one someday; Joe Torre has a puncher’s chance. But if the team was to commission a statue, Lou Gehrig deserves it. A born and bred New York, he won the World Series six times and was a two-time MVP to go with a .