Don Mattingly Second Base

Donnie baseball is certainly the second name that jumps to mind in any discussion of yankees first basemen.
Don mattingly second base. First baseman and outfielder bats. 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. April 20 1961 in evansville in us.
Left 6 0 175lb 183cm 79kg born. 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. 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. Drafted by the new york yankees in the 19th round of the 1979 mlb june amateur draft from reitz memorial hs evansville in.
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 the american league overturned the umpire s ruling in the infamous pine tar.