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PHILADELPHIA (AP) \u2014 Don Mattingly thew in the towel on his managerial career and had all but retired<\/a> from baseball after he left his bench coach job with Toronto following the World Series.<\/p>\n

Prodded by his son, Mattingly decided to give baseball another go, and accepted a job over the winter as Philadelphia’s bench coach, where he would be reunited with his old friend from their New York Yankees days in manager Rob Thomson<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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