![]() Sidd even got many offers to come try out for other major league teams, these offers were obviously retracted when the word got out. ![]() ![]() They provided pictures of Sidd’s locker, his score cards and even pictures of him pitching, which turned out to be a poser. This article came from an elaborate hoax orchestrated by the author and the New York Mets. Impressively liberated from our opulent life-style, Sidd’s deciding about yoga” If the first letter of each word was put side by side, it spells HAPPY APRIL FOOLS DAY. He wrote “He’s a pitcher, part yogi and part recluse. It was discovered later that the author of the article, George Plimpton left a clever clue in the subtitle of the article. Baseball fans were truly disappointed that they would never see Finch play. They had an exciting team, fueled by young stars such as Darryl Strawberry, Dwight Gooden, Howard Johnson, and Sid Fernandez. Back in 1985, the New York Mets felt they were on the verge of a dynasty. The only problem Finch never actually existed. On April 8th, Sidd held a press conference and stated that he felt he had lost the energy and accuracy to throw his famous fastball and that he would not be pursuing a career in baseball. Sidd Finch was supposed to be the next great New York Mets pitching phenom. Mets fans and other baseball fans wrote letters to the magazine, eager to learn more information about the star player. This article became one of the most talked about articles in the history of Sports Illustrated. Sidd told the Mets that he hadn’t made a decision about whether he wanted to commit to baseball or whether he wanted to pursue a career in playing the French Horn. The highest a player could score for any category was an 8. Finch’s scorecard had him score a 9 for fastball pitching. Another player described Sidd’s pitches as “humanly impossible” to hit. One of the players said he was thrown back two or three feet after catching one of Sidd’s pitches. The other players described the ball making sounds through the air as he pitched it. During training camp, the other Mets player got to play along with Finch. When pitching, Finch often wore a hiking boot on his right foot and wore nothing on the other. He threw a couple pitches and amazed the coaches so much that they immediately invited him to training camp. When he reached his teens, Sidd briefly attended Harvard University but then decided to travel to Tibet where he had learned the teachings of a “great poet-saint Lama Milaraspa” and mastered “siddhi, namely the yogic mastery of mind-body.” Through his Tibetan mind-body mastery, Finch had “learned the art of the pitch.”įinch decided to go to the Mets camp in Florida to try out professional baseball. Plimpton reported that Finch was raised in an English orphanage and then adopted by an archeologist named Francis Whyte-Finch who later was killed in a plane crash. He had never played for a college or a minor league. The previous record set was 103 miles per hour. ![]() In 1985, Sports Illustrated published an article by George Plimpton entitled “The Curious Case of Sidd Finch.” The article talked about a young man and incredible rookie baseball player named Sidd Finch who could supposedly pitch a 168 mile per hour fastball with perfect accuracy. ![]()
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