Sidd Finch In its April 1985 edition, 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). He could reportedly pitch a baseball at 168 mph with pinpoint accuracy. The fastest previous recorded speed for a pitch was 103 mph.
Finch had never played baseball before. He had been raised in an English orphanage before he was adopted by the archaeologist Francis Whyte-Finch who was later killed in an airplane crash in the Dhaulaglri mountain region of Nepal. Finch briefly attended Harvard before he headed to Tibet where he learned the teachings of the “great poet-saint Lama Milaraspa” and mastered “siddhi, namely the yogic mastery of mind-body.” Through his Tibetan mind-body mastery, Finch had “l(fā)earned the art of the pitch.”
Finch showed up at the Mets camp in Florida, and so impressed their manager that he was invited to attend training camp. When pitching he looked, in the words of the catcher, “l(fā)ike a pretzel gone loony.” Finch frequently wore a hiking boot on his right foot while pitching, his other foot being bare. His speed and power were so great that the catcher would only hear a small sound, “a little pft, pft-boom,” before the ball would land in his glove, knocking him two or three feet back. One of the players declared that it was not “humanly possible” to hit Finch’s pitches.
Unfortunately for the Mets, Finch had not yet decided whether to commit himself to a career as a baseball player, or to pursue a career as a French Horn player. He told the Mets management that he would let them know his decision on April 1.
辛迪·芬奇在1985年四月刊，“講述體育”板塊上發(fā)表了一篇喬治·普林頓的文章，這篇文章講述了一個正在佛羅里達的圣彼得斯堡米特營地進行訓練的，不可思議的棒球新手，這位球手叫做辛迪·芬奇（辛迪是辛迪哈桑的簡稱，赫爾曼·黑塞書中的一個印度神秘人也叫這個名字）據(jù)說，球手辛迪可以將球擊到168英里/小時并使球準確的達到落球點，而之前最快的擊球記錄也只是103英里/小時。
芬奇以前從未打過棒球。他小時侯在英國的孤兒院長大，后來被一個名叫弗朗西斯·懷特·芬奇的考古學家收養(yǎng)，而這位考古學家卻逝世于在尼泊爾境內道拉格力山的空難。芬奇上了哈佛大學，后來又去西藏學習“詩圣喇嘛米拉蘭思帕”的教學方法并被冠于了“辛迪，即是神秘瑜伽的思想者”的稱號，依靠他西藏思想者的能力，他學會了棒球的擊球術。
芬奇在佛羅里達州的米特訓練營表現(xiàn)令人驚喜，他的經(jīng)理對他印象深刻所以特邀他參加了正式的訓練。當人們看他擊球的時候，用捕球手的話來說：“像是發(fā)了瘋的椒鹽卷餅”。在擊球時，芬奇時常在右腳穿著一只旅行鞋，而左腳則光著，他的速度是如此之塊力量是如此之大，使他的捕球手接到球之前只能聽到一個細微的聲音“一種能量速度爆發(fā)的回音”，他說，球的沖力可以把他沖擊的倒退兩三英尺。另一個人則聲稱“人類的極限”也不如芬奇的擊球。
而對米特不幸的是，芬奇無法決定他是要做一個職業(yè)棒球手還是去吹法國號。他對管理層說他將會在4月1日告訴他們他的決定。
Finch had never played baseball before. He had been raised in an English orphanage before he was adopted by the archaeologist Francis Whyte-Finch who was later killed in an airplane crash in the Dhaulaglri mountain region of Nepal. Finch briefly attended Harvard before he headed to Tibet where he learned the teachings of the “great poet-saint Lama Milaraspa” and mastered “siddhi, namely the yogic mastery of mind-body.” Through his Tibetan mind-body mastery, Finch had “l(fā)earned the art of the pitch.”
Finch showed up at the Mets camp in Florida, and so impressed their manager that he was invited to attend training camp. When pitching he looked, in the words of the catcher, “l(fā)ike a pretzel gone loony.” Finch frequently wore a hiking boot on his right foot while pitching, his other foot being bare. His speed and power were so great that the catcher would only hear a small sound, “a little pft, pft-boom,” before the ball would land in his glove, knocking him two or three feet back. One of the players declared that it was not “humanly possible” to hit Finch’s pitches.
Unfortunately for the Mets, Finch had not yet decided whether to commit himself to a career as a baseball player, or to pursue a career as a French Horn player. He told the Mets management that he would let them know his decision on April 1.
辛迪·芬奇在1985年四月刊，“講述體育”板塊上發(fā)表了一篇喬治·普林頓的文章，這篇文章講述了一個正在佛羅里達的圣彼得斯堡米特營地進行訓練的，不可思議的棒球新手，這位球手叫做辛迪·芬奇（辛迪是辛迪哈桑的簡稱，赫爾曼·黑塞書中的一個印度神秘人也叫這個名字）據(jù)說，球手辛迪可以將球擊到168英里/小時并使球準確的達到落球點，而之前最快的擊球記錄也只是103英里/小時。
芬奇以前從未打過棒球。他小時侯在英國的孤兒院長大，后來被一個名叫弗朗西斯·懷特·芬奇的考古學家收養(yǎng)，而這位考古學家卻逝世于在尼泊爾境內道拉格力山的空難。芬奇上了哈佛大學，后來又去西藏學習“詩圣喇嘛米拉蘭思帕”的教學方法并被冠于了“辛迪，即是神秘瑜伽的思想者”的稱號，依靠他西藏思想者的能力，他學會了棒球的擊球術。
芬奇在佛羅里達州的米特訓練營表現(xiàn)令人驚喜，他的經(jīng)理對他印象深刻所以特邀他參加了正式的訓練。當人們看他擊球的時候，用捕球手的話來說：“像是發(fā)了瘋的椒鹽卷餅”。在擊球時，芬奇時常在右腳穿著一只旅行鞋，而左腳則光著，他的速度是如此之塊力量是如此之大，使他的捕球手接到球之前只能聽到一個細微的聲音“一種能量速度爆發(fā)的回音”，他說，球的沖力可以把他沖擊的倒退兩三英尺。另一個人則聲稱“人類的極限”也不如芬奇的擊球。
而對米特不幸的是，芬奇無法決定他是要做一個職業(yè)棒球手還是去吹法國號。他對管理層說他將會在4月1日告訴他們他的決定。