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Educating Twitter: Don Mattingly's Hits

Educating Twitter: Don Mattingly's Hits

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Paul White
Apr 02, 2024
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Since retiring as a player after the 1995 season, Don Mattingly has been quoted as saying that he thinks he could have reach 3,000 hits if he hadn’t decided to spend more time with his kids. Here’s the most recent version of that quote that popped up on Twitter.

No source was cited for this quote, but I don’t doubt Mattingly said it. In 2014 he gave an i…

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