Mattingly immediately got a haircut and returned to action the next day.
Don mattingly haircut.
Drafted by the new york yankees in the 19th round of the 1979 mlb june amateur draft from reitz memorial hs evansville in.
Don mattingly s number 23 was retired by the new york yankees in 1997.
When mattingly refused he was benched.
He is commonly cited as the best yankee player to have never played in a world series.
Don mattingly the team s best player asked the yankees to trade him two months ago and they said nothing doing.
Yesterday the yankees asked mattingly to get a haircut and he said the same thing.
He will be with the yankees for five years after this year and hopefully will complete his career here 24.
The story became even more interesting a little later.
First baseman and outfielder bats.
Although steinbrenner was suspended the yankee management ordered don mattingly who was then sporting a longish or mullet like hair style to get a hair cut.
Don mattingly looked back at his benching for not cutting his hair 23 years to the day after it happened with the yankees back with baseball teams could be run by men named stump and stick.
Mattingly finished his career with 2 153 hits 222 home runs 1 007 runs scored 1 099 rbi and a 307 lifetime average.
Mattingly was unhappy playing for a losing team a losing team telling him to get a haircut.
But he could have hit free agency after the 90 season and signed with a contender if.
Mattingly discussed the deal in his usual understated style.
April 20 1961 in evansville in us.
Left 6 0 175lb 183cm 79kg born.
Don mattingly openly defied the yankees management s requests for him to cut his hair.
An incident that had mirrored a story in the january 1992 the simpsons episode homer at the bat where mattingly was a guest star and was benched in the episode for having long sideburns that only mr.