What's with that giant glove?

[mangeorge]

Every once in a while, on tv, I notice a huge baseball glove at the top of the stands in the back during a game. The park I’m sure of it is SanFrancisco, but maybe at othrers also. Its three dimensional, not a picture.
I don’t really follow baseball, but the tv is on while I’m doing other things so I kniw zilch the game and all the stuff that goes with it.
So, what’s that big ol’ glove all about?
Peace,
mangeorge

[markdash]

@mangeorge

Every once in a while, on tv, I notice a huge baseball glove at the top of the stands in the back during a game. The park I’m sure of it is SanFrancisco, but maybe at othrers also. Its three dimensional, not a picture.
I don’t really follow baseball, but the tv is on while I’m doing other things so I kniw zilch the game and all the stuff that goes with it.
So, what’s that big ol’ glove all about?
Peace,
mangeorge

It’s a giant glove made of cement or some similar material. Basically, it’s there for aesthetics, but IIRC if a player ever hit a home run that struck the glove (a massive, massive shot) then the entire stadium would win a Coca-Cola, or something like that.

@SFGiants.com

Giant 1927 Old-Time Four-Fingered Baseball Glove
Giant Old-Time Glove

The glove is a 26-foot-high, 32-foot-wide and 12-foot-deep replica of a vintage 1927 four-fingered baseball mitt. It is 36 times the size of the original model and weighs 20,000 pounds.

The glove, designed in Berkeley and built in Oakland, provides fans with a close-up view of a timeless baseball icon.

The glove, instantly recognizable as a part of the game, will be a fun target for big league hitters. Although, if hitters reach this glove, they will have hit a ball approximately 501 feet and it won’t be an out.

The mitt was constructed by scanning the original model to create a 3-D file showing every stitch and wrinkle. A computer router, using the 3-D model as a guide, carved the outline of the glove from high-density foam. The foam was cut into blocks to make them easier to handle and covered with fiberglass before being assembled, attached to a steel infrastructure, and hand sculpted by artists.

The artists who crafted the glove took great measures to maintain the authentic look and feel of the original mitt. The surface is a flexible epoxy compound that was molded and treated to look like worn leather. The grommets are real brass and the stitching, done by hand, uses marine grade rope.

Local artisans put in hundreds of hours on this sculpture to make sure the right materials were selected for the glove’s display.

Coca-Cola and the Giants agreed to model the glove after a four-fingered mitt owned by Giants senior vice president and general counsel Jack Bair’s father.

[panamajack]

This page has a nice picture of the glove. It’s behind the left field bleachers. (The ‘outfield’ shot on that page looks to be taken from near the glove).

[mangeorge]

@panamajack

This page has a nice picture of the glove. It’s behind the left field bleachers. (The ‘outfield’ shot on that page looks to be taken from near the glove).

That does look real. In fact, looks kina like someone took a real glove and some hobby railroad props and built a diorama around it.
Aren’t there such things at other ballparks? I seem to remember a target with a hole for the bull’s eye.