Every Friday I’ve been releasing ‘A Brief History’ podcast about the Yankees. It started as a way to stay sane during quarantine, but evolved into something that I look forward to researching each week.
The most recent episode was about the New York Yankees Appearance Policy. Like many of these history episodes, it once again started with George Steinbrenner, but also focused on one of the crazier sagas in Yankees history — Don Mattingly and the Battle of the Mullet.
Mattingly was playing in the final year of his contract in 1990, and in April he threatened to sign elsewhere unless he received an extension.