The former Yankees first baseman, who played in the Bronx for 14 years without ever making it to the Fall Classic, punched his ticket on Monday night when the Blue Jays beat the Mariners in Game 7

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.

Don Mattingly, known as Donnie Baseball, is set to be the bench coach for the Toronto Blue Jays as they face the Los Angeles Dodgers in the World Series.

Buck Showalter did just about everything in baseball. One thing he never did was get to a World Series. The same could have been said for his former minor league teammate, Don Mattingly — until

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.

The long wait is finally over. After 5,231 games over 36 seasons as a player, coach and manager, Donnie Baseball is going to his first World Series. “Obviously it feels great to get there, and I feel like we’re gonna play well too,

Maybe the death of the dumb, decades-old Yankees hair policy was an omen because everything’s going Don Mattingly’s way this year.

Blue Jays coach Don Mattingly's message of patience, perseverance and being there for his kids still resonates today.