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108 Stitches: Loose Threads, Ripping Yarns, and the Darndest Characters from My Time in the Game - Hardcover
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New York Times Bestseller
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, New York Times bestselling author and Emmy Award-winning broadcaster Ron Darling offers his own take on the "six degrees of separation" game and knits together 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 early twentieth-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 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.
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Review
"A Real Page turner.... memorable for the whimsical, breezy tidbits that add texture to some well-known characters he has known in a long, honorable career in baseball." --Tyler Kepner, The New York Times
"Baseball journalist, broadcaster, and former Mets pitcher Darling shows his deep love of the sport and the personalities that drive it in this collection of colorful anecdotes...This entertaining insider volume is sure to please baseball enthusiasts." --Publishers Weekly
About the Author
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.
Daniel Paisner has collaborated with dozens of public figures on their autobiographies and memoirs. He is also the author of A Single Happened Thing and the acclaimed chronicle of the 1998 baseball season, The Ball.
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- PublisherSt Martins Pr
- Publication date2019
- ISBN 10 125018438X
- ISBN 13 9781250184382
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages258
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