Was Don Mattingly Left Handed

Don mattingly mustache and all is the last player to start a game at third.

Was don mattingly left handed. Drafted by the new york yankees in the 19th round of the 1979 mlb june amateur draft from reitz memorial hs evansville in. Mattingly munson miss out on hall of fame 3 18 2019 at 1 05 pm 3 18 2019 at 1 05 pm email protected. As long as we re at it left handed catchers. But he also can play or at least field right handed.

Hal chase a well traveled first baseman and known jerk who played from 1905 1919 is the only left handed thrower to spend time at all four infield positions since the turn of the 20th century. April 20 1961 in evansville in us. Both left hand dominant played pro baseball left handed when don mattingly was playing youth baseball he could throw with either arm. Mattingly became an all star first baseman for the new york yankees.

He has to completely reset his feet to make the throw. Mattingly is ambidextrous he pitched in little league baseball and was a first baseman also throwing both right handed and left handed and was a member of the 1973 great scott little league championship team in evansville indiana under the coaching of pete studer and earl hobbs in american legion baseball for funkhouser post 8 mattingly played at second. But the giants had backed off trading the two left handed pitchers when they learned. A member of the miami marlins staff and manager don mattingly right lead starling marte 6 away after marte was hit by a pitch in the ninth inning of game 1 of a national league wild card baseball series against the chicago cubs in chicago wednesday sept.

New york yankees first baseman don mattingly was almost traded to the san francisco giants in the late 80s. Though he now shares it with travis hafner another left handed first. Left 6 0 175lb 183cm 79kg born. A natural left hander he played third base in american legion ball when he was 15 years old and claims that he was good.

Playing career amateur career. Reitz memorial hs evansville in. Marte left the game with an unknown injury. April 26th 2011 at 1.

Don mattingly was an eight time all star for the yankees a nine time gold glove winner as a left handed first baseman. Smith mattingly discuss 7 1 win over nats. Yankee captain don mattingly sets a major league record when he hits his sixth grand slam of the season off red. In fact at times this season mattingly has manned first base during batting infield practice with a glove on his left hand see photo above from april.