The most striking aspect of don mattingly s career from one point of view is the number of years that he produced mediocre statistics murray chass of the new york times wrote after mattingly retired and the yankees unveiled his plaque in the famous monument park at yankee stadium.
Don mattingly mustache.
Six years of domination followed by six years of frustration and.
Don mattingly manager of the miami marlins and the former owner of a luxurious mustache instituted a no facial hair policy for marlins players in 2016.
Don mattingly from his sabr bio quoting mattingly in good company from the new york times making the hall of fame case for donnie baseball.
The hall of fame case for don mattingly is all about peak performance.
In other words he had an awesome manly man s mustache.
His career counting stats 222 hr 1 099 rbi 2 153 hits do not measure up especially for a first baseman.
His career was divided in half.
But the real losers in all this are children of the 1980s who viewed mattingly s mustache regardless of what team they rooted for as iconic and by extension projected an image of stoic cool.
Some mustaches are as legendary as the men who wore them.
And now a year later he s reversing.
In 1984 at just 23 years old mattingly was the american.
Unfortunately it did nothing to.
Mattingly is now clean shaven as a coach with the los angeles dodgers although the dodgers do not have.
Steinbrenner publicly criticized him for it and mattingly eventually trimmed it to a mustache.
Unlike beards a natural.
This legendary red sox third baseman was the yang to don mattingly s yin the omega to mattingly s alpha.
The indiana native debuted in 1982 and left his mark in less than three years.