New York Mets

Mets' Class A affiliate to honor Sidd Finch with bobblehead night

Published Aug. 21, 2015 5:25 p.m. ET

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The Brooklyn Cyclones will pay homage to the greatest New York Mets player who never lived with a celebration of Sidd Finch Bobblehead night.

The Cyclones will commemorate the 30-year anniversary of the legendary Finch, an otherworldly - and fictional - pitcher who was the subject of a Sports Illustrated story on April Fool's day in 1985.

The article, titled “The Curious Case of Sidd Finch” and penned by another legend in George Plimpton, described a too-good-to-be true pitcher with a 168 mph fastball who was torn between a career with the Mets or playing the French horn.

Celebrate the greatest April Fool’s prank ever with the @BKCyclones on Wed. Sidd Finch night: http://t.co/uCbHqisId8 pic.twitter.com/sIrg1Zvubq
— New York Mets (@Mets) August 21, 2015

The public - particularly Mets followers - bought into the story despite the slew of outlandish facts aside from Finch's nuclear fastball. Finch was a Harvard graduate who had never played baseball, learned Yoga in Tibet and pitched wearing only one shoe - a hiker's boot.

Finch told the team his first name derived from "Siddhartha" - translated to "The Perfect Pitch." Mets management played along with the hoax, assigning Finch a locker between sluggers Darryl Strawberry and George Foster, which was featured as part of the magazine's photo spread.