Meat Loaf, who died at age 74, once thanked Marlins’ Don Mattingly in liner notes
Toward the end of the lyric booklet of his “Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell” album that featured the Grammy-award winning single, ““I’d Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That),” rock star Meat Loaf gave special thanks to a slew of people.
One of those is Miami Marlins manager Don Mattingly, who was playing first base for the New York Yankees when the album dropped in 1993.
Meat Loaf, born Marvin Lee Aday, died Thursday at the age of 74, according to a family statement, the Associated Press reported.
No cause of death or any other details were given, AP reported.
In the sequel to the successful “Bat Out of Hell” album, Meat Loaf thanked the New York Yankees, but singled out Mattingly as well.
Meat Loaf and Mattingly are also shown in a photo from Sports Illustrated’s Vault stemming from a May 1994 game.
Meat Loaf was described as a longtime Yankees fan and serious softball player in a 1991 SI profile of when he was a high school girls softball coach in Connecticut.
His original “Bat Out of Hell” album produced several hit songs such as “You Took The Words Right Out of My Mouth,” “Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad” and “Paradise By the Dashboard Light.” That album debuted in 1977. Meat Loaf also acted in several movies, including the cult classic “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” and “Fight Club.”
