108 Stitches: Loose Threads, Ripping Yarns, and the Darndest Characters from My Time in the Game
Written by Ron Darling and Daniel Paisner
Narrated by Malcolm Hillgartner
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This is New York Times bestselling author and Emmy-nominated broadcaster Ron Darling's 108 baseball anecdotes that connect America’s game to the men who played it.
In 108 Stitches, Ron Darling offers his own take on the "six degrees of separation" game and knits together a collection of wild, wise, and wistful stories reflecting the full arc of a life in and around our national pastime.
Darling has played with or reported on just about everybody who has put on a uniform since 1983, and they in turn have played with or reported on just about everybody who put on a uniform in a previous generation. Through relationships with baseball legends on and off the field, like Yale coach Smoky Joe Wood, Willie Mays, Bart Giamatti, Tom Seaver and Mickey Mantle, Darling's reminiscences reach all the way back to Babe Ruth and other turn-of-the-century greats.
Like the 108 stitches on a baseball, Darling's experiences are interwoven with every athlete who has ever played, every coach or manager who ever sat in a dugout, and with every fan who ever played hooky from work or school to sit in the bleachers for a day game.
Darling's anecdotes come together to tell the story of his time in the game, and the story of the game itself.
Ron Darling
Ron Darling is the New York Times bestselling author of Game 7, 1986 and The Complete Game as well as an Emmy Award-winning baseball analyst. He was a starting pitcher for the New York Mets from 1983 to 1991 and the first Mets pitcher to be awarded a Gold Glove.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Like the 108 stitches on a baseball, long-time New York Mets pitcher, and now broadcaster, Ron Darling ties together his many years in the game and offers 108 interesting stories/anecdotes about the players he played with and against over the years.Darling, RJ to his friends, attended Yale and his books normally are a cut above other baseball memoirs. He's interesting and speaks and writes well. How many other ballplayers' memoirs include comparisons to world-renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma? This is not the typical ballplayer memoir.Most years, I typically read about 10 to 15 baseball books each year and I'd call this one of the better baseball books I've read in recent years. I'd recommend it to baseball fans, even those who, like me, who aren't Mets fans.(I received a copy of this book from the publisher, via Net Galley, in exchange for a fair and honest review.)