I admit it, I was completely fooled by George Plimpton’s original article about the phenom pitcher Sidd Finch. Of course I was not alone as even members of the main stream media were convinced that Finch was real. It was one of the best April Fool’s pranks ever played.
Finch was so popular that Plimpton expanded the story into a full novel, The Curious Case of Sidd Finch: A Novel