Baseball Statues | Sports Awards

College Baseball Foundation & Hall of Fame

Brooks Wallace National Shortstop
Player of the Year Award trophy

Brooks Wallace National Shortstop Player of the Year Award Trophy

The CBF Award:

The Brooks Wallace Award was created for the College Baseball Foundation. This portrait bronze memorial statue is presented annually to the outstanding shortstop in college baseball. It has been awarded since 2004.

Until 2008, the award was on-par with the Heisman Trophy for college football. It was presented to the nation’s most outstanding college baseball player. Beginning in 2009, the recipient list was changed to recognize the top collegiate player at the shortstop position.

The Award was named for and honors former Texas Tech shortstop and player-coach Brooks Wallace. He died of leukemia in 1985 at the age of 27. Brooks was known and respected for his admirable character both on and off the field.

The Commission:

Tom White was commissioned by the CBF to create this perennial award and dynamic trophy. Tom worked with Brooks’ family, including his brother, Larry Wallace, to create this moving tribute to Brooks and to his character. It is shared by the best of the best in collegiate baseball each year.

Babe Ruth - the "Bambino" - Clay Maquette for future Portrait Monument

Babe Ruth desktop sculpture, depicting him at the beginning of his career. This tabletop (13″x19″x5) is available for casting in bronze, or enlargement into a life or monumental size memorial bronze of The Babe for a ballpark.

George Herman "Babe" Ruth, Jr. - the Sultan of Swat

This historic desktop portrait sculpture of The Babe. captures his sheer determination, his love of the game and his confidence. Tom depicts Babe Ruth during the time he attended training camp at Majestic Park in Hot Springs, Arkansas. This was when he played for the Red Sox at the start of his illustrious career that spanned 22 seasons (1914-1935).

History:

George Herman “Babe” Ruth, Jr., (Feb. 6, 1895 – Aug. 16, 1948), remains one of the world’s greatest sports heroes. He was first a left-handed pitcher with the Boston Red Sox followed by a distinguished career as an outfielder with the New York Yankees and Baltimore Orioles. Tom sought to capture the Babe’s bold yet humble belief in himself and in his fellow man in this tabletop sculpture.

The Babe was a restless and ungrounded young man until he found a true “love” which, for the great Bambino, was baseball. His reach and contribution to the game is incaluable. He remains a G.O.A.T. (greatest of all time) for his accomplishments. They are: baseball’s first 500-foot home run; one of the “first five” inducted into the inaugural Baseball Hall of Fame (1936). Also, the single-season and career home run title holder “Sultan of Swat” for more than half-a-century.

Tom felt a kindred spirit with The Babe for being restless and ungrounded in youth. He, like George, came from a jumbled and unsteady background only to find a passion that stabilized him. For the Babe, it was baseball. For Tom, it was with God and through art. Tom knows what it is like to find the gifts inside that you were created to exercise in your lifetime. Tom, like most boys, grew up playing baseball and often dreamed of aspiring to the success of the great Babe Ruth. However, Tom is thankful the Lord took him a different direction through sculpting, painting and family.

Availability:

This desktop sculpture of Babe Ruth is available for casting in bronze. It is also ready to be enlarged into a monumental bronze for your outdoor setting at a baseball field, college or park. Call for information to discuss your ideas for a monumental statue of Babe Ruth or any sports figure you would like to see honored or memorialized in bronze.

…Tom & Marcey White

Little League Baseball Statues

America's favorite past-time is also every "American Boy's Dream"

Tom specializes in creating dynamic sports sculptures in many sizes. His “American Boys’ Dream” is a portrait statue done of a client’s grandson.

Tom will create a sculpture of your favorite LIttle League Baseball player, or an award trophy for your team. He will also design a monumental public baseball statue for your school, ballfield, or public recreational park or camp if needed. So give him a call.

In addition to “American Boy’s Dream,” Tom created “Base Hit” to recognize the slugger in everyone. Because what young boy hasn’t dreamed of the World Series, grand slams, or contributing the winning run?

"Base Hit" tabletop bronze honors America's favorite past-time

“Base Hit” was the second grandson of a client that Tom immortalized in his Little League years. And he specializes in creating dynamic sports sculptures from all venues, including sports bronze monuments and award trophies.

Tom can make these statues in various sizes from tabletop, life-size or monumental. Because public sports figures are so inspiring, consider a new sculpture for your baseball field, sports arena, park, recreational area, school or baseball camp.

So give us a call for Tom to design your own unique, custom commissioned sports statue of your favorite player.