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Sidd Finch, the Glossary

Sidd Finch is a fictional baseball player, the subject of the notorious April Fools' Day hoax article "The Curious Case of Sidd Finch" written by George Plimpton and first published in the April 1, 1985, issue of Sports Illustrated.^[1]

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Al Lang Stadium

Al Lang Stadium is a 7,500-seat sports stadium along the waterfront of downtown St. Petersburg, Florida, United States which was used almost exclusively as a baseball park for over 60 years.

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American Broadcasting Company

The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network that serves as the flagship property of the Disney Entertainment division of the Walt Disney Company.

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April Fools' Day

April Fools' Day or All Fools' Day is an annual custom on 1 April consisting of practical jokes and hoaxes.

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Archaeology

Archaeology or archeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture.

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Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding.

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Brooklyn Cyclones

The Brooklyn Cyclones are a Minor League Baseball team of the South Atlantic League and the High-A affiliate of the New York Mets.

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CBS

CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS (an abbreviation of its original name, Columbia Broadcasting System), is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the CBS Entertainment Group division of Paramount Global and is one of the company's three flagship subsidiaries, along with namesake Paramount Pictures and MTV.

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Commissioner of baseball

The commissioner of baseball is the chief executive officer of Major League Baseball (MLB) and the associated Minor League Baseball (MiLB) – a constellation of leagues and clubs known as "organized baseball".

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Cover date

The cover date of a periodical publication is the date displayed on the cover, which is not necessarily the true date of publication (the on-sale date or release date); later cover dates are common in magazine and comic book publishing.

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Darryl Strawberry

Darryl Eugene Strawberry (born March 12, 1962) is an American former professional baseball right fielder who played 17 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB).

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Evening Independent

The Evening Independent was St. Petersburg, Florida's first daily newspaper.

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Fastball

The fastball is the most common type of pitch thrown by pitchers in baseball and softball.

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Four Walls Eight Windows

Four Walls Eight Windows was an American independent book publisher in New York City.

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French horn

The French horn (since the 1930s known simply as the horn in professional music circles) is a brass instrument made of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell.

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General manager (baseball)

In Major League Baseball, the general manager (GM) of a team typically controls player transactions and bears the primary responsibility on behalf of the ballclub during contract discussions with players.

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George Foster (baseball)

George Arthur Foster (born December 1, 1948) is an American former professional baseball player and scout.

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George Plimpton

George Ames Plimpton (March 18, 1927 – September 25, 2003) was an American writer.

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Golf

Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit a ball into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible.

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Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Ice hockey

Ice hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an ice skating rink with lines and markings specific to the sport.

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Illinois

Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Jonathan Dee

Jonathan Dee (born May 19, 1962) is an American novelist and non-fiction writer.

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Lama

Lama is a title for a teacher of the Dharma in Tibetan Buddhism.

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Lenny Dykstra

Leonard Kyle Dykstra (born February 10, 1963) is an American former professional baseball center fielder who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Mets (1985–1989) and Philadelphia Phillies (1989–1996).

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List of talk show hosts

Below is a list of talk show hosts, sorted alphabetically by their surnames.

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Managing editor

A managing editor (ME) is a senior member of a publication's management team.

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Mel Stottlemyre

Melvin Leon Stottlemyre Sr. (November 13, 1941 – January 13, 2019) was an American professional baseball pitcher and pitching coach.

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Middle school

A middle school, also known as intermediate school, junior high school, junior secondary school, or lower secondary school, is an educational stage between primary school and secondary school.

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NBC

The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the NBC Entertainment division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.

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Nepal

Nepal, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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New York Mets

The New York Mets are an American professional baseball team based in the New York City borough of Queens.

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Oak Park, Illinois

Oak Park is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States, adjacent to Chicago.

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Old Orchard Beach, Maine

Old Orchard Beach is a resort town in York County, Maine, United States.

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Peter Ueberroth

Peter Victor Ueberroth (born September 2, 1937) is an American sports and business executive known for his involvement in the Olympics and in Major League Baseball.

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Pitcher

In baseball, the pitcher is the player who throws ("pitches") the baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of retiring a batter, who attempts to either make contact with the pitched ball or draw a walk.

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, also known simply as the PG, is the largest newspaper serving metropolitan Pittsburgh in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.

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Plimpton! Starring George Plimpton as Himself

Plimpton! Starring George Plimpton as Himself is a 2013 American documentary film directed by Tom Bean and Luke Poling about the writer George Plimpton, who was a co-founder of The Paris Review and contributor to the participatory journalism genre.

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Press conference

A press conference, also called news conference or press briefing, is a media event in which notable individuals or organizations invite journalists to hear them speak and ask questions.

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Sadaharu Oh

Sadaharu Oh (Japanese: 王貞治, Ō Sadaharu; born May 20, 1940), also known as Wang Chen-chih, is a Japanese-born Taiwanese former professional baseball player and manager who is currently the chairman of the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).

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Spartanburg Herald-Journal

The Spartanburg Herald-Journal is a daily newspaper, the primary newspaper for Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States.

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Sports Illustrated

Sports Illustrated (SI) is an American sports magazine first published in August 1954.

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St. Petersburg, Florida

St.

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Steve Dalkowski

Stephen Louis Dalkowski Jr. (June 3, 1939 – April 19, 2020), nicknamed Dalko, was an American left-handed pitcher.

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Tampa Bay Times

The Tampa Bay Times, called the St.

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Taro Tsujimoto

Taro Tsujimoto is a fictitious Japanese ice hockey player who was selected in the 1974 National Hockey League Amateur Draft as the 183rd overall pick by the Buffalo Sabres. Sidd Finch and Taro Tsujimoto are Nonexistent people used in hoaxes.

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The Buddha

Siddhartha Gautama, most commonly referred to as the Buddha ('the awakened'), was a wandering ascetic and religious teacher who lived in South Asia during the 6th or 5th century BCE and founded Buddhism.

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The Daily Gazette

The Daily Gazette is an independent, family-owned daily newspaper published in Schenectady, New York.

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Tibet

Tibet (Böd), or Greater Tibet, is a region in the western part of East Asia, covering much of the Tibetan Plateau and spanning about.

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Yoga

Yoga (lit) is a group of physical, mental, and spiritual practices or disciplines which originated in ancient India and aim to control (yoke) and still the mind, recognizing a detached witness-consciousness untouched by the mind (Chitta) and mundane suffering (Duḥkha).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidd_Finch

Also known as Hayden Siddhartha "Sidd" Finch, Joe Berton, Sid Fynch, Sid finch, Siddhartha Finch.

, Yoga.

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See also

1985 hoaxes

April Fools' Day jokes

Fictional baseball players

New York Mets

Nonexistent people used in jokes

Sports Illustrated

References