Don Mattingly Quotes
The players get no respect around here. They give you money, that's it, not respect. We get constantly dogged and players from other teams love to see that. That's why nobody wants to play here.
Chass, Murray. "BASEBALL; Mattingly Benched and Fined Over Hair." The New York Times, 16 Aug. 1991, p. B7.
She was writing about the generation of young men who returned from WWI. The post war syndromes that began to be understood after the Vietnam and subsequent wars were present earlier only they were not recognized as medical, psychological conditions. The substances widened to include illicit drugs as well as alcohol, but the syndromes were the same even if unknown at the time. Writers like Stein and Hemmingway who wrote about this were looked upon as unpatriotic by some for writing about the effect of war on the fighters. Ironically, many Americans thought that we were facing a new problem of modern warfare in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan. That is why this quotation has so much historical importance. It was not a new, modern problem.
Donald Arthur Mattingly is an American former professional baseball first baseman, coach, and current manager for the Miami Marlins of Major League Baseball (MLB). Nicknamed "The Hit Man" and "Donnie Baseball", he spent his entire 14-year career playing with the New York Yankees and later managed the Los Angeles Dodgers for five years.
