Don Mattingly Haircut

Don mattingly s number 23 was retired by the new york yankees in 1997.

Don mattingly haircut. He will be with the yankees for five years after this year and hopefully will complete his career here 24. First baseman and outfielder bats. Left 6 0 175lb 183cm 79kg born. But he could have hit free agency after the 90 season and signed with a contender if.

The story became even more interesting a little later. In february of 1992 a new episode of the simpsons aired in which mr. Mattingly finished his career with 2 153 hits 222 home runs 1 007 runs scored 1 099 rbi and a 307 lifetime average. Drafted by the new york yankees in the 19th round of the 1979 mlb june amateur draft from reitz memorial hs evansville in.

Don mattingly openly defied the yankees management s requests for him to cut his hair. Mattingly discussed the deal in his usual understated style. An incident that had mirrored a story in the january 1992 the simpsons episode homer at the bat where mattingly was a guest star and was benched in the episode for having long sideburns that only mr. Yesterday the yankees asked mattingly to get a haircut and he said the same thing.

Don mattingly the team s best player asked the yankees to trade him two months ago and they said nothing doing. Don mattingly looked back at his benching for not cutting his hair 23 years to the day after it happened with the yankees back with baseball teams could be run by men named stump and stick. A don mattingly will attract people to see my club play 23 don mattingly is now the best paid player in baseball steinbrenner said. Burns arranged for mattingly and eight other major leaguers to join his power plant s softball team only to see them fall victim to a series of.

Mattingly immediately got a haircut and returned to action the next day. Mattingly was unhappy playing for a losing team a losing team telling him to get a haircut. April 20 1961 in evansville in us.