Welcome news comes out of Yankee- land this week as one of the team's great players of the last two decades returns: Don Mattingly will be the Bombers' hitting coach next season. The Yankees certainly need his assistance: For the second time in the last three years, the team failed to hit during the World Series (news - web sites). If there's one thing Mattingly knows, it's hitting. In a career sadly cut short because of back pain, Mattingly was, in his prime, a virtual hitting machine. In 1985, he led the league with 145 runs batted in. He followed...