Weaving through the exhibit, baseball fans young and old can reflect on the game’s giants, whose on-field heroics not only clinched 27 World Series titles for the ballclub, but also helped grow the sport.
Yet within Monument Park’s confines are several non-baseball affiliated plaques honoring the victims of the September 11 terrorist attacks, Nelson Mandela and Jackie Robinson; but there are also three plaques dedicating when the hallowed grounds of one of baseball’s greatest stadiums transformed into the hallowed grounds for celebrating Catholic Mass: Pope Paul VI in 1965; Pope John Paul II in 1979; and Pope Benedict XVI in 2008.
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