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All April Fool’s stories should have come to halt in 1985 when the best one of all time was published by George Plimpton in SI: The Curious Case Of Sidd Finch. The clue was right there in the first letter of each word of the sub-head: “He’s a pitcher, part yogi and part recluse. Impressively liberated from our opulent life-style, Sidd’s deciding about yoga—and his future in baseball.”