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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
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 23
- American Notes
- BASEBALL
- Clip 'Em or Ship 'Im!
- </hdr><body>
- <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 A $250 fine was rescinded.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.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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