Financed and designed by the trustees of Graceland, working closely with Banks’ widow and Northworks Architects+Planners (which has done a lot of work at Graceland, most stunningly four years ago by bringing its chapel back to its original 1888 arts and crafts glory), the monument is in the classic tablet style, roughly 4 feet tall. Built by Gast Monuments, it is made of solid rose granite. On top is a cast of one of Banks’ A-2000 baseball mitts atop a 1950s style base. On the monument’s sides you will find crossed bats and the number 14 along with this familiar quotation, “It’s a great day for a ball game. Let’s play two”; mention of the Presidential Medal of Freedom he received in 2013; some statistics noting his 512 career home runs and his Aug. 8, 1977 induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame; and a bas relief portrait of Banks at bat and this: