World Series, Don Mattingly and Toronto Blue Jays
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Don Mattingly is one of the best in the game to have never won a World Series. If he does now, it will be against the team he once managed.
No Yankees fan will be happy if the Blue Jays finish off the Yankees in the ALDS. But one tiny silver lining could be that it will keep alive the dreams of the 64-year-old Mattingly making it to World Series for the first time in his six-decade professional baseball career.
Yankees great Don Mattingly never appeared in a World Series while wearing pinstripes. Now he has a chance to win one with the Blue Jays.
Jays manager John Schneider, whose boyhood idol was Mattingly (he’s far from alone), calls it a treat to have Mattingly in the dugout as coach and confidant. And Mattingly says the same. He’s loving his experience as Jays coach, which could keep him in uniform another year.
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