| Stealing Home: The Point of No Return | |
| Artist: | Branly Cadet |
| Medium: | Bronze sculpture |
| Subject: | Jackie Robinson |
| Metric Unit: | cm |
| Imperial Unit: | in |
| City: | Dodger Stadium Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Mapframe: | no |
Stealing Home: The Point of No Return is a bronze statue of baseball great Jackie Robinson which was unveiled outside Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles on April 15, 2017, marking the 70th anniversary of Robinson's breaking of the color line in professional baseball in 1947, when he became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball during the modern era. Robinson played for the Brooklyn Dodgers from 1947 to 1956, and was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1962. His historic first is commemorated on Jackie Robinson Day each year.[1]
In 2015, the Los Angeles Dodgers announced that they would unveil the statue of Jackie Robinson at Dodger Stadium. Dodgers' president Stan Kasten commissioned what would become the first statue dedicated by the team and chose sculptor Branly Cadet to create the statue.[2]
The statue was unveiled on Jackie Robinson Day in 2017, 70 years after Robinson's debut, with Robinson's widow Rachel Robinson, then 97, and his children attending the ceremony.[3]
The sculpture weighs 800 pounds, and stands in the centerfield plaza of Dodger Stadium. It depicts Robinson stealing home plate, an act described by Cadet as "both real and symbolic; it required focused determination, courage and precise timing—synergistic qualities that were also present when the color barrier was finally broken in Major League Baseball, heralding a new era."
There are three quotes by Robinson carved onto the base of the statue:
In front of the base, the inscription says: