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.
For the past two decades the Yankees have...
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