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Ron Darling digs in, Lenny Dykstra has backers as fight gets ugly

Ron Darling isn’t backing down, despite Lenny Dykstra’s threats to sue him over racism allegations in the SNY analyst’s new book.

Darling said Tuesday he stands by what he wrote regarding Dykstra yelling racial slurs at Red Sox pitcher Dennis “Oil Can” Boyd before the start of Game 3 of the 1986 World Series.

“I heard what I heard and I put it in the book for a reason,” Darling told ESPN Radio’s “Golic and Wingo” show.

Darling made the allegations in his new book, “108 Stitches: Loose Threads, Ripping Yarns, and the Darndest Characters from My Time in the Game,” which was released Tuesday and excerpted in The Post on Sunday.