MLBlogs: Newman: Statues on Parade Marathon

I saw a couple of these grotesquetimonials to baseball freedom in NYC yesterday...for a second there I thought Trash and Vaudeville had given their local javachef an artsy gig!

What happens when you combine a training run for the New York City Marathon with the Statues on Parade and its 42 replicas of the Statue of Liberty spread all around NYC for the All-Star Game? Join MLB.com’s Mark Newman as he RAN a route to see them all and blogs about it. Get one yourself!

Here is a slideshow of the Statues on Parade Marathon that I ran by myself on July 4, 2008. I ran roughly 26.2 miles starting at 8 a.m. on the Upper West Side, up to Yankee Stadium, down to Battery Park (boat ride to Liberty and Ellis Islands), and back uptown to finish just after 10 p.m. I stopped along the way to see 42 Statues of Liberty on Parade for our MLB All-Star Game and a 43rd—the real Lady Liberty. I will blog more about the details but here are the pics and timestamps.