For the past four seasons of San Francisco Giants baseball, one of the six statues around Oracle Park has been missing. But now, just before the 2024 season begins, the statue of Willie McCovey has returned to its namesake’s waterfront.
Earlier this week, the Giants reinstalled the statue on the opposite side of McCovey Cove from Oracle Park, where it has been since it was first unveiled in 2003. But the statue is not in the exact same location it was before; it’s been moved a couple hundred feet west, to be a centerpiece of the newly built China Basin park and hangout space.