Donnie Baseball

Today is a birthday for Don Mattingly, the best Yankee player never to win a World Series (43). One of the good guys in sports, Indiana native Mattingly brought a mix of Larry Bird's work ethic and Michael Jordan's spectacle, great field instincts and power hitting. His career unfortunately shortened by back injuries, he retired in 1995, one year before the Yankees started their latest string of championships with Tino Martinez (no Donnie, but worlds better than Jason Giambi) at first base.