Former Met Lenny Dykstra lobbed a lawsuit at ex-teammate Ron Darling on Tuesday — seething that the retired pitcher claims in his new book that Dykstra once hurled disgusting racist taunts at an opponent.
The lawsuit, filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, said Darling “maliciously portrayed Plaintiff as a racist, an irremovable stain and permanent cloud which will forever diminish Mr. Dykstra.
“Apparent from the book’s title and content is Darling’s blatant attempt to sell his latest publication through a strategy of sensationalizing and shocking his audience, at the expense of no less than Mr. Dykstra, who Darling apparently considered an easy target due to his past.