NEW YORK – Don Mattingly arrived at his first World Series this year, fulfilling one lifetime baseball wish as the AL champion Toronto Blue Jays ’ bench coach.

And right now, he’s back at Cooperstown’s doorstep.

On Sunday night, the 16-member Contemporary Baseball Era Committee will meet and reveal its balloting for Hall of Fame induction at the Winter Meetings in Orlando, Florida.

The iconic former Yankees captain has been here before, falling four votes shy of election in 2022, when one player – Fred McGriff – made it to Cooperstown.

"At this point − I guess the best way to say it is that I've played all my cards,'' Mattingly once said, referencing his accomplishments as one of the game’s top lefty-hitting first basemen.

Mattingly, 64, spent 15 years on the writers’ ballot. He exi

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