Throughout his 14-year career with the New York Yankees, Don Mattingly famously wore a mustache. ... as the team reported for spring training, Donnie Baseball debuted his bold new look.

Don Mattingly’s take on Yankees’ allowing beards years after Mullet-gate fiasco. ... then after the star closer was forced to shave for the first day of spring training, ...

After one season as the club’s offensive co-ordinator, Mattingly will no longer oversee the offence in that role and will return to more of a “traditional” setting as a bench coach in 2025 ...

• VERDUCCI: Key questions for spring training The Yankees own the league’s most famous facial hair policy, which Mattingly broke in 1991 when was benched for refusing to cut his mustache.

After his playing days were over, Mattingly served as a special instructor for Yankees spring training from 1997-2003, a job Mattingly held in the midst of a Yankee dynasty.