108 Stitches

- Blurb -

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.