Herald readers have spoken!
The Bobby Orr statue outside the TD Garden is the winner of this week’s poll of the best statues in Greater Boston, with 44% of your vote.
With 16%, the “Make Way for Ducklings” statue, which recreates the duck family in Robert McCloskey’s children’s book, comes in second.
Third place goes to the majestic George Washington memorial on the Boston Common with 10% of the vote out of 300-plus voters in our quick-hit poll.
We didn’t want to influence the poll, so we held off celebrating that the Bobby Orr #4 bronze is based on an iconic Boston Herald photo.
The famous photo inspiring the statue’s gravity-defying pose was shot by none other than Ray Lussier, a photographer for the Boston Record American, now the Boston Herald.
As former Herald columnist Joe Fitz