In Honor of April Fools' Day, Sidd Finch and the NY Mets
Posted: Wed Apr 2, 2008 5:07 am
Sidd, if you're still out there (even if you fastball not longer breaks 125 mph), let us know. I'm sure we could use you as a fifth started this season:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/01/sport ... finch.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/01/sport ... finch.html
An Old Baseball April Fools' Hoax
By ALAN SCHWARZ
Published: April 1, 2005
t still happens on the Wrigley Field concession lines. It happens as he walks down Michigan Avenue. It even happened, in all places, while sipping a lager in an Oxford pub.
"Sidd Finch! You're Sidd Finch! Hey Sidd, can I get your autograph?"
After 20 years, for Joe Berton, the line remains a little blurred. Ninety-nine percent of his waking moments are spent as Joe Berton, mild-mannered junior high school art teacher in Oak Park, Ill. But that other 1 percent, he is still Sidd Finch, baseball's greatest pitching prospect.
It was 20 years ago this week that Sports Illustrated ran one of its most celebrated articles, "The Curious Case of Sidd Finch" - in which George Plimpton crafted a 14-page expos