Ron Darling: World Champion Mets Pitcher (Part One: 1983-1987)
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Ronald Maurice Darling Jr. was Born August 19th, 1960, in Honolulu, Hawaii to a Hawaiian/Chinese mother and French/Canadian father. Darling speaks both fluent Chinese & French. Ron is the oldest of four brothers. The Darling family eventually moved to Millbury, Massachusetts, where he grew up remembering it being the best years of his life from ten to twenty years old. Darling grew up a Red Sox fan. Cape Cod League Hall of Fame: Darling played baseball in the Cape Cod League & was considered one the league's best players in it's history finishing with a .336 batting average. In 2002 he was later inducted into the Cape Cod League Hall of Fame with eleven others including former Mets manager Buck Showalter. Yale: From 1979-1981 Darling attended Yale University where he majored in French & Southeast Asian history. Originally wanting to play both football & baseball, he chose to focus on the latter. He regrets not choosing to play football at Yale & missing t...