Don Mattingly is an American former professional baseball first baseman and coach.
Mattingly is the current manager for the Miami Marlins of Major League Baseball.
He spent his entire 14-year career playing with the New York Yankees and later managed the Los Angeles Dodgers for five years.
Mattingly graduated from Reitz Memorial High School in Evansville, Indiana, and was selected by the Yankees in the 1979 amateur draft.
Debuting with the Yankees in 1982 following four seasons in Minor League Baseball, he became the Yankees’ starting first baseman after a successful rookie season in 1983.
Mattingly was named to the American League (AL) All-Star team six times. He won nine Gold Glove Awards (an AL record for a first baseman), three Silver Slugger Awards, the 1984 AL batting title, and was the 1985 AL Most Valuable Player.
He served as captain of the Yankees from 1991 to 1995, when he retired as a player. The Yankees later retired Mattingly’s uniform number (23), making him the only Yankee to have his number retired without having won a World Series with the team.
According to Mattingly, he retired for his family but not because of his back as many say: “A lot of people say it was my back, but they just don’t know. It was a decision for my boys. They were starting high school and I wanted to be around to be part of their life”.