A Reserved Seat That Never Empties
In 2019, the Reno Aces — the Triple-A affiliate of the Arizona Diamondbacks — set aside a single seat in their ballpark that no fan will ever occupy. Above it hangs a bronze home plate we cast in our shop: the POW/MIA emblem raised in relief, dedicated on August 3, 2019 in partnership with the Vietnam Veterans of America, Sierra Nevada Chapter 989. The chair sits empty at every home game so that players, coaches, and fans never forget the service members who were captured or never came home.
Projects like this one are why we make home plate plaques. The shape does something a rectangle cannot: everyone who has ever played, coached, or watched the game understands it instantly. Mounted on a seat back, a dugout wall, or a stadium concourse, a bronze home plate ties the tribute to the field itself — the place where the person or the moment it honors actually lived.
Every plaque starts with your story. We cast team logos, veterans’ chapter seals, and league emblems in raised bronze relief, engrave portraits directly into the metal from a single clear photograph, and help you shape the wording so it reads right from the stands. You approve a full design proof before anything is cast, and the finished plaque is solid bronze or clear-coated aluminum — built for decades of sun, rain, and season openers outdoors.
The Aces’ tribute anchors Memorial Day, Veterans Day, and opening-day ceremonies year after year — a fixture that endures long after the crowd goes home. Whether your project honors a fallen service member, a legendary coach, a championship team, or the volunteers who built the concession stand, we bring the same craft to every casting.