Don Mattingly will have to keep waiting for a call from the Baseball Hall of Fame.

The Evansville native didn't get the necessary 12 votes from the 16-member Contemporary Baseball Era Committee to be inducted. Mattingly got just six votes.

The now-64-year-old Mattingly's name appeared on the Contemporary Baseball Era ballot alongside seven others: Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, Jeff Kent, Carlos Delagado, Dale Murphy, Gary Sheffield and Fernando Valenzuela.

Only Kent, a second baseman for 17 seasons, was selected. He received 14 votes.

Mattingly, a 1979 Memorial High School graduate who excelled in baseball, football and basketball in his prep days, spent all 14 years of his Major League Baseball career with the New York Yankees .

He made his debut in the Bronx in 1982, a quiet seven-g

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