This was Mattingly's first-ever trip to the World Series and he came so close to winning title before the Dodgers won Game 7 in dramatic fashion.

EVANSVILLE, Ind. (WFIE) - Baseball great and local native Don Mattingly could get his name etched into the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Organizers announced Monday that Donnie Baseball and seven others will be considered by the Contemporary Baseball Era Committee for Hall of Fame election for the Class of 2026.

After 14 years as a major-league player, 12 as a manager and 10 as a coach, Mattingly is finally participating in his first Fall Classic.

Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens will get another shot at Cooperstown. On Monday, the Baseball Hall of Fame unveiled a list of eight players who will be up for election consideration as part of the the Contemporary Baseball Era committee.

No Yankees fan will be happy if the Blue Jays finish off the Yankees in the ALDS. But one tiny silver lining could be that it will keep alive the dreams of the 64-year-old Mattingly making it to World Series for the first time in his six-decade professional baseball career.

TORONTO — Blue Jays coach Don Mattingly 36th MLB season, this one with what he calls a “special, special” team, ended with one of the toughest World Series defeats imaginable in Mattingly’s first appearance in the Fall Classic. But afterward ...

Yankees great Don Mattingly never appeared in a World Series while wearing pinstripes. Now he has a chance to win one with the Blue Jays.

Mattingly, who is the bench coach for the Blue Jays, has finally made it to the World Series for the first time.

The Blue Jays were one win from a World Series title but suffered two consecutive heartbreaking losses that helped the Dodgers repeat as champions.