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.

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

CC Sabathia, who pitched the last 11 seasons of his 19-year Major League career in New York, will be wearing a Yankees cap in ...