Nearly three decades later, the “local artist” has a name. Up until the wife of the man who painted the Big Bat reached out to the Slugger Museum, John Yates’s identity was a mystery.

Meet Dick Moots. He is the man who designed the beloved logo for the Albuquerque Dukes baseball team over 50 years ago.

CC Sabathia will wear a Yankees cap and Billy Wagner will don the Astros logo on their Baseball Hall of Fame plaques.