Hoornstra: In baseball, statues are not the preferred path to immortality

Michelangelo made the careful choice to describe himself as a sculptor – not a painter, not an artist at large. He didn’t need the fungus on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel to identify the superior medium.
Tuesday, it was announced that Sandy Koufax would receive a statue outside Dodger Stadium next year. Jackie Robinson received the first, in 2017. When we consider how long sculpture has existed as an art form, how long baseball has existed as an American pastime, and how long the