Don Mattingly was a star player for the Yankees back in the 1980s and is the current manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers, but he recently put a different talent on display in his hometown of Evansville, Indiana. Not only did he take part in a play, but he portrayed a member of the opposite gender.

Mattingly played Mother Ginger in the Evansville Ballet's performance of the holiday classic: The Nutcracker. You gotta give props to Mattingly, as not many in his profession would put their pride on the line for such a production, but he has never really acted like he's more important than the average person anyway.

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Here's a grainy (sorry, the video was tiny) screen-grab of Donnie Baseball in drag.