The Pokagon panel marks the culmination of a multi-year effort conceived, directed, and sustained by the Institute for Social Concerns. Over successive years, Institute faculty and staff brought together community historians, neighborhood residents, local artists, and Notre Dame faculty and students to reclaim forgotten athletic stories.

This September, the Institute hosted the first-ever Christian faith-based Integrating Virtue Together (IVT) workshop, welcoming nearly 30 faculty from 24 Christian colleges and universities across the country to the University of Notre Dame.

Commissioned by the Institute and painted by local artist and Pokagon Band citizen David Martin, the mural is the latest in a series of public artworks conceived and led by the Institute and its partners to illuminate the communities and histories that have shaped South Bend through baseball.