AltaSea, a nonprofit that develops the sustainable ocean economy, is shepherding the program at the Port of Los Angeles.

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.

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