Editing Oracle Park (section)

===Statues===
[[File:AT&T Park, San Francisco at night.jpg|thumb|left|Main entrance with Willie Mays statue and 24 palm trees]]
Outside the ballpark are six statues, five of which are dedicated to San Francisco Giants all-time greats.

The [[Statue of Willie Mays|Willie Mays statue]] is located in front of the ballpark entrance at 24 Willie Mays Plaza and is surrounded with 24 palm trees, in honor of his number 24 uniform, retired by the Giants. It was dedicated at noon on March 31, 2000, prior to the opening of the ballpark and was commissioned by Giants Managing Partner [[Peter Magowan]].<ref>{{cite news |title='All Choked Up / Giants Legend Willie Mays Is Moved By Statue of Him for New Ballpark'|first=Edward|last=Epstein|url=https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/ALL-CHOKED-UP-Giants-legend-Willie-Mays-is-2998761.php|newspaper=[[San Francisco Chronicle]]|date=August 7, 1998|access-date=December 4, 2013}}</ref>

Another [[Statue of Willie McCovey|statue]] was dedicated to [[Willie McCovey]] in 2003, and is located at McCovey Point across [[McCovey Cove]]. Around the statue are a number of plaques that celebrate the winners of the [[Willie Mac Award]]. The statue is located at China Basin Park next to the Barry Bonds Junior Giants Field, a T-ball park. Also located on the sea wall promenade are plaques showing the [[Opening Day]] roster of every Giants team from 1958 through 1999. Giants fans who contributed funds to China Basin Park had their own tiles with their own inscriptions set into the wall.<ref>{{cite web |title=San Francisco Giants McCovey Point And China Basin Park|url=http://sanfrancisco.giants.mlb.com/sf/ballpark/mccoveypoint.jsp|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070705231927/http://sanfrancisco.giants.mlb.com/sf/ballpark/mccoveypoint.jsp|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 5, 2007|publisher=[[Major League Baseball Advanced Media]]|access-date=December 4, 2013}}</ref>

A [[Statue of Juan Marichal|third statue]], dedicated in 2005, honors former Giants pitcher [[Juan Marichal]], and is located outside the ballpark at the [[Lefty O'Doul]] Gate entrance.

The fourth and only non-human statue is located at the park's ferry plaza behind center field, also known as Seals Plaza. A statue of a seal bobbing a baseball on its nose honors the memory of the [[San Francisco Seals (baseball)|San Francisco Seals]], the minor league baseball club that played before the arrival of the Giants in 1958.

On September 6, 2008, during a series against the [[2008 Pittsburgh Pirates season|Pittsburgh Pirates]], a fifth statue depicting Giants great [[Orlando Cepeda]] was dedicated at the corner of 2nd Street and King Street, next to the ballpark. A sixth statue, dedicated on August 13, 2016, honors former Giants pitcher [[Gaylord Perry]] in the same location. All five player statues were created by sculptor [[William Behrends]] of North Carolina.

[[File:SF Ballpark 2 CA.jpg|thumb|700px|center|Oracle Park, with the [[San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge|Bay Bridge]] in the background and [[McCovey Cove]] on the right]]