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...Plimpton exhibited his Lampoon-cultivated humor when, as an April Fools’ joke in 1985, he wrote an article for Sports Illustrated profiling Sidd Finch, a fictitious Harvard dropout who learned to throw a 168-mile-per-hour fastball while studying yoga at a Tibetan monastery...
...Plimpton wrote that Finch had reported to the New York Mets’ spring training camp, thrilling gullible fans of the team...
...Plimpton also earned a temporary position with the New York Philharmonic, playing the sleigh bells, triangle, bass drum and gong...
Born to an aristocratic New York family on March 18, 1927, Plimpton attended the elite prep school Phillips Exeter Academy...
Three months prior to graduation, Exeter officials asked Plimpton to leave...