Sickels noted, "Position a question but has promising tools and bloodlines. Mattingly remarried on December 10, in his hometown of Evansville, Indiana. During the late s and early s, Don Mattingly was the owner of a restaurant in Evansville, Indiana called "Mattingly's 23", after the uniform number he wore for most of his career.
During his first two seasons, he wore uniform number Template:Citation needed. In , Mattingly launched Mattingly Sports Company , a baseball and softball equipment company, based primarily around the patented V-Grip baseball and softball bats. After watching his kids and their friends struggle to maintain the proper hitting grip, Don, along with co-inventor Jim Wells, created the V-Grip as a way to ensure the proper alignment of the hands and to keep the bat out in the hitter's fingertips.
A third founder, Skip Shaw, was brought in to grow the company into a meaningful player in the baseball and softball equipment marketplace. Mattingly appeared in a baseball-themed episode of The Simpsons , entitled " Homer at the Bat ". In the episode originally aired on February 20, , team owner Mr. Burns repeatedly orders Mattingly to shave off his sideburns , even though Mattingly has no sideburns.
The irate Burns cuts him from the team because he would not "shave those sideburns! In , before the episode aired but after it was produced, then-Yankees manager Stump Merrill told him that until he cut his hair, he would not play.
This was in accord with Yankee owner George Steinbrenner 's policy requiring his players to maintain well-kept head and facial hair, although at the time, Steinbrenner was suspended.
Mattingly was sporting a longish or mullet like hair style, and when he refused to cut it, he was benched. Mimicking the controversy, a perfectly groomed Seaver has hair that to Rizzuto appears "a bit too long.
Many people believed the joke in The Simpsons episode to be a reference to the incident, but "Homer at the Bat" was actually recorded a year before it happened. In , Mattingly again ran afoul of the policy when he grew a goatee. Mattingly has also appeared in public service announcements airing on the Spike TV network advocating fathers spending time with their children as part of the "True Dads" campaign to encourage men to take an active role in their children's lives.
Mattingly is referred to by name in several episodes of Seinfeld. MLB Wiki Explore. Wiki Content. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? Don Mattingly.
Edit source History Talk 0. Categories New York Yankees Add category. Houston Astros. Hendriks, Hader named MLB's top relievers in ' Chicago White Sox. Longtime Royals scout Art Stewart dies at Kansas City Royals. The Marlins have been a model of instability for much of their year history, and Mattingly has lasted longer as their manager than anyone else.
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After letting the news marinate for a few days, respondents from our latest FanPulse survey are more enthusiastic than expected. With three games remaining in the regular season, the Marlins are and will finish with the second-lowest winning percentage in franchise history. It represents a step back from though their run differential has actually improved from minus to minus Brian Anderson and Sandy Alcantara established themselves as above-average regulars on the roster, but internal candidates at most other positions failed to make progress.
How will the team react to this uninspiring performance? In the latest episode of the Swings and Mishes podcast, Craig Mish anticipates new faces of some kind:.
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