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.

Langston Hughes is known as the people’s poet. I would say Biggers is the people’s painter. The man and the work are one.” ...

A rare painting of the Beatles is among the largely unseen work on show at a unique exhibition of two of Scotland’s best-loved artists in Glasgow this week.