Art Dononovan Statue
from Larry Harris/PressBoxOnline.com
A couple seasons back, former Baltimore Colt Bruce Laird and his Fourth And Goal organization that is designed to help retired and needy National Football League players decided to hold a fundraiser.
They picked Colts Hall of Famer Artie Donovan as the honoree for their affair and it was exceedingly successful. As usual, the garrulous Dunny, always the world’s greatest spinner of pro football stories, captivated onlookers to such a degree that organizers decided to commission a statue of the great defensive tackle.
Fred Kail, one of the most highly respected sculptors in the country, was chosen to do the artistic rendering and then the local good old boy network went to work with a will. Former Colts teammates and local sportsmen like Leroy Merritt, Ted Bauer, Frank Culotta, Elmer Wingate, Andy Nelson, Jim Mutscheller, Tom Matte, Vince Bagli and many others contributed their money, resources and time and that was all the prolific Kail needed.
