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Twenty years ago this month, the late, great George Plimpton ’48 broke the story in Sports Illustrated of an extraordinary young New York Mets farmhand who “may well change the course of baseball history...
With a bizarre stiff-armed cricket bowler’s heave—and “utilizing the Tantric principle of body and mind,” as Plimpton reported—Finch became the first man to record a plus-103 mph fastball. He did it on St. Patrick’s Day, 1985 at Mets’ camp outside of Tampa...
Stottlemyer called it, according to Plimpton, “the most awesome thing that has ever happened in baseball...
...registrar’s office at Harvard,” Plimpton reported, “will release no information about Finch except that in the Spring of 1976 he withdrew from the college in midterm...
...Plimpton “majored in Lampoon and minored in everything else,” said Robert C. Cobb ’48, a fellow member of the Lampoon. “If I had my life to live over again, I think I would have been George Plimpton...