ARLINGTON, Texas — An artist has been selected by the Texas Rangers to create a statue honoring fallen Brownwood firefighter Shannon Stone.Bruce Greene, known as one of the nation’s top Western artists and sculptors, was named by Rangers President Nolan Ryan on Tuesday.Stone died July 7 after falling about 20 feet at the Rangers Ballpark in Arlington while trying to catch a baseball thrown into the stands.Stone was trying to catch the ball for his 6-year-old son, Cooper, who was beside at the time of the accident. The ball was being thrown into the stands by Rangers star Josh Hamilton, Cooper’s favorite player.The statue, to be entitled “Rangers Fans,” will depict Shannon Stone and Cooper attending a Rangers game. The bronze statue will be located outside the Home Plate Gate at the ballpark, according to mlb.com and texasrangers.com.Greene’s studio is located on his ranch near Clifton, Texas. His paintings and sculptures are exhibited in a number of museums and galleries throughout the nation, including the Texas Rangers Museum in Waco, the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, and the Phoenix, Ariz., Art Museum.Greene may be best-known for his “Immortal Ten Memorial,” located on the Baylor University campus, a sculpture completed in 2007 on the 80th anniversary of a deadly bus crash near Austin that took the lives of 10 Baylor players, coaches and fans.The statue honoring Shannon Stone will be the third sculpture at Rangers Ballpark. Full-size bronze statues of Nolan Ryan and Tom Vandergriff were dedicated in 1997 and are in the Vandergriff Plaza, located beyond centerfield in the ballpark.

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