Miami marlins manager don mattingly celebrates with the team in clinching a playoff berth after their win in the 10th inning of a baseball game against the new york yankees at yankee stadium.
Don mattingly yankees hair.
Don mattingly the team s best player asked the yankees to trade him two months ago and they said nothing doing.
The problem wasn t his offense.
He is commonly cited as the best yankee player to have never played in a world series.
Which players pushed back and rocked the stache the best.
The most infamous incident involving the yankees and facial hair happened in 1991.
Yankee management ordered don mattingly to get a hair cut who was sporting a mullet like hair style.
I have major mustache envy.
No not the veteran mattingly for he d been benched by manager stump merrill.
Yesterday the yankees asked mattingly to get a haircut and he said the same thing.
Mattingly sported a 305 batting average heading into the day.
In response they removed him from the starting lineup and fined him repeatedly until he promised to trim it.
Don mattingly openly defied the yankees management s requests for him to cut his hair.
When mattingly refused he was benched.
Don mattingly s number 23 was retired by the new york yankees in 1997.
On august 15 1991 the yankees beat the royals 5 1 with shooting star kevin maas at first base and not the team s normal first baseman don mattingly.
Mattingly finished his career with 2 153 hits 222 home runs 1 007 runs scored 1 099 rbi and a 307 lifetime average.