Don Mattingly plays it coy as questions linger over his baseball future

Could legendary Yankee Don Mattingly call it a career after the World Series? 

Friends suggest they believe retirement is a possibility for Mattingly, the surprise Yankees superstar of the 1980s and early 1990s who fashioned a wonderful 22-year managing and coaching career with the Yankees, Dodgers, Marlins and Jays and reached his first World Series with Toronto 44 years after breaking in with the Bombers. 

Jays manager John Schneider, whose boyhood idol was Mattingly (he’s far from alone), calls it a treat to have Mattingly in the dugout as coach and confidant. And Mattingly says the same. He’s loving his experience as Jays coach, which could keep him in uniform another year. 

But it’s also possible this will be the last year of 36 great years in the big leagues.