Don Mattingly Second Base

April 20 1961 in evansville in us.

Don mattingly second base.

Playing for reitz memorial high school s baseball team the tigers mattingly led the school to a state record 59 straight victories through the 1978 79 season. After the american league overturned the umpire s ruling in the infamous pine tar. Mattingly played second base for only 1 3 of an inning in his career but it was a fairly notable 1 3 of an inning. After stealing second base with none out tauchman was sent back to first.

In american legion baseball for funkhouser post 8 mattingly played at second base throwing right handed. He routinely topped baseball in various offensive categories. Mattingly captained the yankees from 1991 95 and is in his fifth season managing the marlins jeter captained the yankees from 2003 14 as part of a career that included five world series titles in. Donnie baseball is certainly the second name that jumps to mind in any discussion of yankees first basemen.

Drafted by the new york yankees in the 19th round of the 1979 mlb june amateur draft from reitz memorial hs evansville in. Mattingly also helped make some baseball history on august 18 1983 when he played second base as a left handed thrower in the finish of the george brett pine tar game a contest that had begun almost a month earlier.