Don Mattingly, 2012 Upper Deck Goodwin Champions (Goodwin Champions Week No. 5)

Name: Don Mattingly
Teams: New York Yankees, East Hampton Sailing Club
Position: First base
Value of card: One used country club napkin
Key 1987 stat: Refused to wear white after Labor Day, even for home games
Places you've seen that sweater before:

• In your step-grandfather's dresser, while snooping for money
• At Goodwill, after your step-grandfather died
• On one of the extras in "Caddyshack"
• At the golf course, worn by some guy who was working on his putts
• On a mustachioed first baseman who was making a foppish entrance into a room
• Considering it was Mattingly's, probably nowhere in October

Don Mattingly, 2012 Upper Deck Goodwin Champions (Goodwin Champions Week No. 5)

Don Mattingly, 1991 Studio (Studio Saturday No. 2)

Name: Don Mattingly

Team: New York Yankees

Position: First base

Value of card: 50-cent tip to bartender

Key 1990 stat: Four days since looking in a mirror

Don spent a week there one night: 1991 Studio was a great set because the photographers often captured the person behind the player. Usually, this was a good thing for all involved parties. In Don Mattingly's case, this nearly landed him in rehab. Mattingly had arrived at Studio's studios after a four-day bender during which the only food he ate was tequila worms and the only shower he took was when he fell face first into a clogged urinal. He had subsisted on whiskey and what little charm he had left after subsisting on whiskey, and showed up at the studio a beaten and beleaguered man. The photographer did his best to clean him up, changing Mattingly out of his sombrero and poncho, trimming his puke-stained mustache and pulling the family of river rats out of his pants. Knowing it wouldn't be long before the Yankees first baseman was spread eagle on a bathroom floor, the photographer snapped one shot, seen above, a moment before Mattingly threw up all over the camera.

Don Mattingly, 1991 Studio (Studio Saturday No. 2)

Don Mattingly, 1988 Fantastic Sam's Baseball Superstars

Name: Don Mattingly
Team: New York Yankees
Position: First base
Value of card: One circle
Key 1987 stat: 13 bad haircuts from Fantastic Sam's
A bust of a different breed: Most of the victims at this site involve terrible photos, terrible clothing choices or terrible concepts; this is the first time the piece of cardboard alone qualifies itself for Bust status. Look at the worry on Donnie Baseball's face. Even he knows this half baseball card-half pog is an awful idea. Maybe ol' Fantastic Sam should spend a little more time training his stylists how to give perms and a little less time coming up with useless, square collector's items.

Don Mattingly, 1988 Fantastic Sam's Baseball Superstars