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...While Plimpton's 14-page spread all complete fiction--was intended as a spool, it has unexpectedly prompted people across the nation to call both Sports Illustrated and the Mets asking for more information on the "pitching...
...Plimpton--a former Lainpoon editor--and Stewart, both contacted in New York yesterday, said that they were surprised that so many people fell for the hoax...
...Plimpton said that much of the national media, including one New York television news program, originally believed that the ascetic pitcher, whose main worldly possession at Harvard was his yak hair rug, was actually burning up the Mets' camp...
When the TV broadcaster found out that Finch was a fake, Plimpton added, he called the article a "cruel hoax...
...Plimpton compared his piece to Orsen Welles' War of the Worlds, a 1930's radio broadcast of alien invaders, which many New Yorkers believed, and added that it had been inspired by similar "wish fulfillment" articles he wrote last summer for the Olympics...