PASADENA, Texas – More than a year after it was stolen from a Pasadena park, a beloved bronze statue honoring Roy “Kipper” Mease has been replaced, bringing relief and emotional closure to a family that spent months hoping to see the memorial restored.
Community members gathered last week at the Kipper Mease Sports Complex in Pasadena as Harris County Precinct 2 Commissioner Adrian Garcia joined the Mease family and Pasadena Mayor Thomas Schoenbein to unveil a newly recreated bronze statue of the young baseball player died in 1982.
For Kipper’s father, Roy Mease, the moment carried special meaning…