In celebrating, they painted the town blue

As Dodgers murals pop up, including by graffiti artist Chaka and Nike, you can keep score on online map

- CHUCK SCHILKEN

“BACK TO BACK” by Daniel “Chaka” Ramos and Nike and featuring Yoshinobu Yamamoto hangs downtown at 213 S. Broadway.

(Photographs by ROBERT GAUTHIER Los Angeles Times)

Legendary graffiti artist Daniel “Chaka” Ramos once claimed he had tagged more than 40,000 locations around Los Angeles.

He now can add seven more. And unlike decades ago — when Ramos had to sneak around in darkness to spray-paint his nickname in large, block letters all over the city and surrounding areas — this time it was fully permissible.

This month Nike recruited Ramos to add his signature style to seven murals celebrating the Dodgers’ back-to-back World Series titles, which the team clinched Nov. 1 with a dramatic Game 7 victory against the Toronto Blue Jays.

Ramos, an L.A. native and Dodgers fan, was more than happy to participate, adding his name and slogans crafted by Nike to each piece. He told The Times in an email that it was his “first major project with a corporate giant like Nike.”

“They're one of the most prolific creative forces in the world, and collaborating with them was a milestone for me,” the 53-year-old artist said. “The rush of graffiti can’t really be compared to commissioned or gallery work, but this experience came close.”

The Nike murals, which are scheduled to remain up through the end of the month, are among the pieces included in a new and quickly expanding online map detailing the locations of Dodgers murals in and around L.A. The map’s creator and curator, Mike Asner, also is the mastermind behind a similar site that documents the locations of hundreds of Kobe and Gianna Bryant murals around the world.

“TWICE IN A BLUE MOON” (Chaka and Nike) in the area of Hollywood Boulevard and Hillhurst Avenue.