Don Mattingly Coaching Career

Mattingly is ambidextrous he pitched in little league baseball and was a first baseman also throwing both right handed and left handed and was a member of the 1973 great scott little league championship team in evansville indiana under the coaching of pete studer and earl hobbs in american legion baseball for funkhouser post 8 mattingly played at second.

Don mattingly coaching career. 6 0 175lb 183cm 79kg born. Phil rizzuto yogi berra whitey ford reggie jackson and don mattingly. Donnie baseball the hit man or cap. This is his second stint on a don mattingly staff as he served as bench coach for mattingly with the dodgers from 2011 13 prior to joining mattingly s staff served as manager of the kansas city royals from 2008 10 compiling a 152 207 record managed the hokkaido nippon ham fighters from 2003 07 guiding the.

After retiring as a player mattingly spent seven seasons as a special instructor during yankees spring training in tampa florida from 1997 2003. Reitz memorial hs evansville in full name. Following the 2003 season the yankees named mattingly the hitting coach. Each living yankee previously honored with a plaque in monument park was on hand for the ceremony.

Tim wallach begins fourth season as miami s bench coach and fifth consecutive season under don mattingly as bench coach prior to serving as bench coach under mattingly with dodgers was dodgers third base coach from 2011 13. Playing career amateur career. With some simple disjointed sentences don mattingly recounted the strife that punctuated the end of his 28 year marriage and sidetracked his once promising coaching career. Donald arthur mattingly nicknames.

222 hr 307 ba 1099 rbi 1b of 1985 al mvp 6xallstar 9xgg yankees 1982 1995 b l t l 3x 2b leader born in in 1961 donnie baseball. April 20 1961 in evansville in us. More bio uniform draft salary info. View player bio from the sabr bioproject.

Why don mattingly s poorly timed mlb career never got him into the hall of fame by madilyn zeegers on may 22 2020 don mattingly a former first baseman for the new york yankees and current manager of the miami marlins is a hall of famer.