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<text id=91TT1889>
<title>
Aug. 26, 1991: American Notes:Baseball
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
Aug. 26, 1991 Science Under Siege
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
NATION, Page 23
American Notes
BASEBALL
Clip 'Em or Ship 'Im!
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<p> The Republic is in ruins! Don Mattingly--six-time All-Star
first baseman for the New York Yankees, captain of a once proud
baseball team, Gotham's nicest guy--was benched last week
because his not very long hair was too long to suit the Yankee
brass. Like a dean's list student sent to the principal's
office for chewing bubble gum, Mattingly, 30, was told he
wouldn't be in the lineup until he looked like a West Point
cadet. Some speculated that Mattingly was being punished for
saying he wanted to be traded.
</p>
<p> For the past two decades the Yankees have been a fun-house
mirror of American society--from the early '70s, when a couple
of players swapped wives, to the long, sad reign of boss George
Steinbrenner, who was accused of bullying his rich, ornery
employees.
</p>
<p> The papers don't have Steinbrenner to kick around anymore,
so they made do with "Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow" jokes. No
joke: Mattingly was back in the lineup the next night--but
only after promising to get shorn. A $250 fine was rescinded.
It would have been no big deal anyway for a $3.86
million-a-year man.
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