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- Sam Miller (April 29, 2020). "Happy 59th! Or is it 58th? Cracking the mystery of Don Mattingly's birthday". ESPN. Archived from the original on April 29, 2020. Retrieved April 29, 2020.
As he was flipping through one pack, he came across card No. 500, Don Mattingly. On the back, under Mattingly's career stats and above a line of baseball trivia, Arduini read the one-line Mattingly bio. It was a jaw-dropping scoop: 'Don's birth certificate states he was born in 1962, not 1961 as shown in most baseball records.' ... Arduini went online to confirm that most baseball records had since been corrected. But they hadn't. Baseball-Reference.com: April 20, 1961. Wikipedia: April 20, 1961. MLB.com: 4/20/1961. 'Everywhere I looked, the birthdate still -- 32 years later -- hadn't been fixed,' Arduini told us.
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