“Jesus Christ! I thought I was pissing next to Don Mattingly!”
Yes, the dude one urinal over had nearly wet himself … and me. We were co-workers at Newsday, me in news, him in sports. New Yorkers, which meant we played it nonchalant in the presence of celebrities. Right? Um, not this guy. I’m not sure he was really ever convinced that the Yankees first baseman wasn’t simply moonlighting as a journalist. He always insisted on calling me Don.
Mary thought it was funny to play with people at Yankee Stadium about it. Like the dude from Totowa, N.J., who announced, “That’s Don Mattingly’s brother!” to his comrades. Mary’d told him so, after all, when he approached us to say that...
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