Don Mattingly Draft Pick

April 20 1961 in evansville in us.

Don mattingly draft pick.

But it was one american legion baseball game that convinced don that he was a baseball player. Yanks go yard 3 years yankees don mattingly. Don mattingly was so lightly regarded in baseball coming out of reitz memorial high school in his hometown of evansville indiana that he wasn t drafted until the 19th round 15 rounds after. He soon had developed a name for himself.

Mattingly didn t make it to october that year 1984. Don a freshman hit two doubles off the star. Don mattingly s son has been busted by police in evansville ind on charges that he shoved his mother and spit in her face. He isn t going to stay at catcher in my opinion for the yankees.

Taylor mattingly a former yankees draft pick faces charges of. The new york yankee s first pick in the mlb draft was high schooler austin wells a lefty slugger who s a catcher first baseman and a left fielder. Here is what don mattingly said one spring training morning in jupiter fla when it was all ahead of him with the marlins and he was talking about the clean slate he d been given by his boss another former captain of the yankees you may have heard of named derek jeter. In 1987 mattingly tied dale long s record set in 1956 hitting a home run in eight consecutive games ken griffey jr.

First baseman and outfielder bats. In a 1976 game against the neighboring town of owensboro kentucky he faced a pitcher who was the cincinnati reds top draft pick that year. 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. Reitz memorial hs evansville in.

He didn t finally make it to october after playing with a bad back in the late innings of his career until 1995 when the yankees got in as a wild card and lost an unforgettable five game american league division series to ken griffey jr edgar martinez and the mariners. Later also tied this mark in 1993. Mattingly was originally signed as a 19th round pick in the 1979 amateur draft by the yankees and scouts jax robertson and gus poulos. Playing career amateur career.