News 08/19/22
STL & NANJING CELEBRATE 40 PLUS
YEARS OF FRIENDSHIP
Pictured: JP Hermann, Tim Nowak, WTC, Stella Sheehan WTC, Dr. Joel Glassman, ret UMSL & St. Louis Nanjing Sister Cities Committee, Rodney Crim, St. Louis Economic Development Partnership,
Neal Perryman, St. Louis Nanjing Sister Cities Committee, Dr. Ching-ling Tai, ret SLUH & St. Louis Nanjing Sister Cities Committee, Bill DeWitt III, St. Louis Cardinals, Tim Hermann, ret Collins & Hermann, Inc. and
Jared Boyd, Office of the Mayor.
ST. LOUIS-NANJING SISTER CITIES STATUE UNVEILING
AT BALLPARK VILLAGE

After a pause due to the COVID-19 pandemic, leaders of the St. Louis-Nanjing Sister Cities Committee from St. Louis and Nanjing and representatives from the St. Louis Cardinals and the St. Louis mayor’s office gathered at Busch Stadium to unveil a bronze statue of a Nanjing batter symbolically awaiting a pitch from a companion statue of Adam Wainwright that was installed in Nanjing in 2019. The seven-foot tall bronze statues are the work of St. Louis sculptor Harry Weber.

The unveiling took place Aug. 13, 2022 at Together Credit Union Plaza in Ballpark Village at Busch Stadium (adjacent to Maryville University Hall of Fame Walk). It commemorates 43 years of friendship between St. Louis and Nanjing, the first Sino-American Sister City relationship.
WATCH VIDEO of congratulations from our Sister City of Nanjing
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