This article was originally published by Boyle Heights Beat , a nonprofit newsroom of the L.A. Local News Initiative serving Boyle Heights and East L.A., on October 6.

A lifelong Dodgers fan, Guillermo Piñon remembers sitting as a kid at Las Palomas, a former Boyle Heights bar, waiting for his father to finish his beer before heading to Dodger Stadium to watch Fernando Valenzuela and his "magic left arm."

Piñon's father was a man of few emotions, but if anything could move him to his core, it was the Los Angeles Dodgers winning the 1981 World Series against the New York Yankees. He remembers his dad shedding a tear, an image, he says, that "is engraved in my memory."

That's why it felt like a no-brainer for Piñon to honor his father by commissioning a mural featuring Valenzuel

See Full Page