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The Pine Tar Incident (also known as the Pine Tar Game) was a controversial incident in 1983 during an American League baseball game played between the Kansas City Royals and New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium in New York City on Sunday, July 24, 1983.
Donald Arthur Mattingly was born on April 20, 1961, in Evansville, Indiana.Mattingly is ambidextrous.He pitched in Little League Baseball and was also a first baseman, throwing both right-handed and left-handed, and was a member of the 1973 Great Scot Little League championship team in Evansville, Indiana, under the coaching of Pete Studer and Earl Hobbs.
Former Yankees Mattingly and Joe Girardi have twice attempted to institute a similar policy on the Florida/Miami Marlins, but restrictions on that team have since loosened. The Yankees' policy has been criticized by sportswriters as outdated, and by marketing officials for limiting the self-expression of players, thus also limiting their ...
Former Yankee Don Mattingly fell four votes shy of the 12 out of 16 needed to get the nod to the Hall. The controversial Red Sox and ... Fred McGriff is officially a Hall of Famer.
Don Mattingly may have found a new avenue to the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Mattingly was among eight former big league players on the Contemporary Baseball Era player ballot to be reviewed ...
Mattingly was named NL manager of the year in 2020, but it was the only playoff appearance among his seven seasons in Miami. Don Mattingly won't manage Miami Marlins after this season Skip to main ...
In 1995, Mattingly again ran afoul of the policy when he grew a goatee. In 2005, after signing with the Yankees, former Boston Red Sox center fielder Johnny Damon , who was known for his long beard and shoulder-length hair during his time with the Red Sox, said about the policy: "Without a doubt, George Steinbrenner has a policy and I'm going ...
It began with then-Miami Marlins president of baseball operations Michael Hill draping a jersey over Don Mattingly as he was introduced as the organization’s manager in 2016. It continued to ...