Marlins manager don mattingly who once owned one of the finest mustaches in all of major league baseball has implemented a new policy on his team.
Don mattingly mustache.
Mattingly is now clean shaven as a coach with the los angeles dodgers although the dodgers do not have.
And now a year later he s reversing.
His career counting stats 222 hr 1 099 rbi 2 153 hits do not measure up especially for a first baseman.
But the mustache though simple can be intimidating to a virgin grower.
In other words he had an awesome manly man s mustache.
Unlike beards a natural.
Unfortunately it did nothing to.
The most striking aspect of don mattingly s career from one point of view is the number of years that he produced mediocre statistics murray chass of the new york times wrote after mattingly retired and the yankees unveiled his plaque in the famous monument park at yankee stadium.
His career was divided in half.
But the real losers in all this are children of the 1980s who viewed mattingly s mustache regardless of what team they rooted for as iconic and by extension projected an image of stoic cool.
Some mustaches are as legendary as the men who wore them.
Six years of domination followed by six years of frustration and.
This legendary red sox third baseman was the yang to don mattingly s yin the omega to mattingly s alpha.
Like munson mattingly s mustache exemplified toughness.
Steinbrenner publicly criticized him for it and mattingly eventually trimmed it to a mustache.
The hall of fame case for don mattingly is all about peak performance.
The indiana native debuted in 1982 and left his mark in less than three years.