First baseman and outfielder bats.
Don mattingly s first at bat.
Three days later mattingly had his first major league at bat against reliever jim slaton of the milwaukee brewers and popped out to third base on the first pitch.
Don mattingly batted 307 with 2 153 hits including 442 doubles and 222 home runs scored 1 007 runs and drove in 1 099 rbi.
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.
Playing career amateur career.
Following his plying days mattingly worked under legendary yankees manager joe torre following him to the los angeles dodgers and eventually succeeding him as the dodgers manager from 201 2015.
Filed under don mattingly new york yankees.
Left 6 0 175lb 183cm 79kg born.
Drafted by the new york yankees in the 19th round of the 1979 mlb june amateur draft from reitz memorial hs evansville in.
Reitz memorial hs evansville in.