Don Mattingly

Don Mattingly is my favorite kind of baseball figure: the great player whose timing was cruel. He gave the Yankees fourteen seasons of brilliant hitting and gold-standard defense, yet retired just before the dynasty years began — and somehow the absence of a ring makes his legend warmer, not smaller. Donnie Baseball was beloved for craft and decency rather than spectacle, which tells you everything about the man from Evansville. That he later earned a Manager of the Year award proves the baseball brain never stopped working. I measure athletes by how their peers speak of them, and by that measure Mattingly is an all-time winner.

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Name (English)

Don Mattingly

Name (Japanese)

ドン・マッティングリー

Reading

どん・まってぃんぐりー

Born

April 20, 1961 (age 65)

Origin

Evansville, Indiana, United States

Height

183 cm

Occupation

baseball player / baseball manager / baseball coach

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Ox

High school

Reitz Memorial High School

Awards & achievements

• 1985 Major League Baseball Most Valuable Player Award
• Rawlings Gold Glove Award
• Silver Slugger Award
• 2020 Major League Baseball Manager of the Year Award

• Official sitehttp://www.donmattingly.com/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%20Mattingly
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%89%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%83%83%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B0%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q679120

Tags

• Indiana
• baseball player
• baseball manager
• baseball coach

Last updated

September 18, 2026

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.