When fans arrive at Los Angeles’ Dodger Stadium in 2016, they will be treated to a new sight — a statue of baseball icon Jackie Robinson.

With the theme “Leveling the Playing Field,” the Dodgers have contracted sculptor Branly Cadet for the assignment.

The statue is expected to be between 9 and 10 feet tall.

Cadet, a descendant of Haitian metal artist Georges Liautaud, is a native of Brooklyn, N.Y., who now lives in California. His public art includes “Higher Ground: The Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Memorial” in Harlem and a bronze of William Shakespeare on a building façade in Manhattan.

A news conference in Los Angeles announcing the tribute to Jackie Robinson was attended by Dodgers CEO Stan Kasten, Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred, Dodgers part-owner Earvin “Magic” Johnson and Robinson’s widow, Rachel Robinson.

“Branly Cadet’s excitement for the project is heartening, and I look forward to the unveiling with great enthusiasm,” said Mrs. Robinson.

Robinson, who played for the Brooklyn Dodgers from 1947 to 1956 at old Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, became major league baseball’s first African-American in the modern era.

He was the National League Rookie of the Year in 1947, NL Most Valuable Player in 1949 and a member of the Dodgers’ 1955 World Series championship team.

The six-time, National League all-star retired before the Dodgers moved to Los Angeles in 1958.

Selected to the Hall of Fame in 1962, Robinson’s No. 42 has been retired by all big league franchises.

Robinson signed with Brooklyn owner Branch Rickey in November 1945 and played the 1946 season with the Montreal Royals, a Brooklyn farm club, before debuting with the Dodgers on April 15, 1947.

The trailblazing athlete becomes the first Dodger to be honored with a stadium statue.