Thursday, 1 April 2004 - 4:20 PM EST

There is a tradition on LUGNET of posting fake sets on April Fool's. Here is this year's:

Friday, 2 April 2004 - 9:31 AM EST

Found this at a site called the Museum of Hoaxes -- One of the greatest April Fool's day hoaxes of all time came from George Plimpton, who, in an April edition of Sports Illustrated in 1985 wrote an article about this man, Sidd Finch. Here's part of the story:

In its edition for the first week of April, 1985 Sports Illustrated published an article by George Plimpton that described an incredible rookie baseball player who was training at the Mets camp in St. Petersburg, Florida. The player was named Sidd Finch (Sidd being short for Siddhartha, the Indian mystic in Hermann Hesse's book of the same name), and he could pitch a baseball at 168 mph with pinpoint accuracy. The fastest previous recorded speed for a pitch was 103 mph.

Finch, according to Plimpton, was a recluse living in the moutains who had been raised by monks. Plimpton included a tip off that the article was a joke. The first letter of each word in the sub headline, when taken together, spelled "Happy April Fool's Day."