Ron darling biography book revue

Regrets, he’s had a few. Enough to write a book about.

Ron Darling, a member of that championship Mets team and the excellent broadcast team that covers the present-day squad, joins the bandwagon of books this year celebrating the 30th anniversary of the 1986 season and last year’s mostly satisfying success.

Unlike the 1969 Mets, who came out of nowhere to shock the baseball world by winning the Series, the ’86 model excelled from the beginning, having contended for a couple of years.

They were expected to win; anything else would have been a disappointment, especially after all the puffing and preening they had done during the regular season. That they had a few close calls --- a 16-inning playoff win against the Houston Astros for the pennant, the dramatic Game Six deliverance from the jaws of death against the Red Sox --- only adds to the legend.

"[Darling] fills in the holes that we,