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Don Mattingly has been on a Hall of Fame ballot 18 times and has been rejected 18 times.

Will it be lucky No. 19, symbolic of a Yankees 19th-round pick?

The baseball world will find out Sunday, when Mattingly will be one of eight candidates whom the 16-member Contemporary Baseball Era Committee, which meets at the Winter Meetings in Orlando, will consider for induction.

“Donnie Baseball” needs 12 votes — which would be four more than he received three years ago — to achieve baseball immortality.

The seven other players on the ballot are Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, Carlos Delgado, Jeff Kent, Dale Murphy, Gary Sheffield and Fernando Valenzuela.

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