A judge has dismissed Lenny Dykstra's defamation and libel lawsuit against Ron Darling, ruling that the former New York Mets outfielder's "reputation for unsportsmanlike conduct and bigotry is already so tarnished that it cannot be further injured."
New York Supreme Court Judge Robert D. Kalish dismissed Dykstra's lawsuit Friday. Dykstra had sued Darling, his former Mets teammate, for claims Darling made about Dykstra in his book "108 Stitches: Loose Threads, Ripping Yarns, and the Darndest Characters from My Time in the Game," which was published last year. St. Martin's Press LLC, Macmillan Publishing Group LLC had also been listed as a defendant.