Artist Claes Oldenburg – known for his gigantic shuttlecocks in Kansas City and oversized cherry spoon in Minneapolis – delivered this 96ft, baseball-bat-like sculpture to Chicago in 1977. It stands in front of the Harold Washington Social Security Center.
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