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Does Anyone Remember Pitching Great Sidd Finch?

April Fool's Day | Baseball | clever | George Plimpton | hoax | New York Mets | Sports Illustrated

Sidd Finch was the baseball pitcher who could throw a 168mph fastball and went to spring training with the New York Mets in the mid-'80s.

Finch had grown up in an English orphanage prior to his adoption by an archeologist who was later killed in a plane crash in the mountains of Nepal. Finch briefly attended Harvard before dropping out to study yogic mastery in a Tibetan monastary. These teachings allowed him to learn to throw a baseball more than 60mph faster than had ever been recorded (with pin-point accuracy no less), making him unhittable.

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