A New York Supreme Court judge dismissed former NY Mets player Lenny Dykstra’s defamation and libel lawsuit against Ron Darling, ruling that Dykstra’s “reputation for unsportsmanlike conduct and bigotry is already so tarnished that it cannot be further injured.” Dykstra claimed that Darling owed him monetary, compensatory, and punitive damages for writing in his book 108 Stitches that Dykstra had shouted “every imaginable and unimaginable insult and expletive …. foul, racist, hateful, hurtful stuff” at Red Sox pitcher Dennis Boyd while he was warming up for Game 3 of the 1986 World Series, which Boston went on to lose. In […]
