Happy April 1st

Best hoax ever:

In its April 1985 edition, Sport Illustrated reported the story of Sidd Finch, a rookie baseball player training at the Mets camp.

Finch could pitch a baseball at 168 mph, the article said. The previous record was 103 mph. And the kicker? Finch had never played baseball before this. He reportedly learned the teaching of the “great poet-saint Lama Milaraspa” and mastered the “yogic art of mind-body,” which helped him in his pitching.

Mets fans were really excited until they learned Finch was just a slice of writer George Plimpton’s imagination.

Additional tomfoolery:

http://www.journalstar.com/articles/2008/03/31/living/402/doc47f1414ec7079677705978.txt