Forty years ago this week, Sports Illustrated published a story about a New York Mets prospect that was too good to be true.
Literally.
Standing 6-foot-4 and weighing 170 pounds, a right-handed pitcher named Hayden "Siddhartha" Finch became one of the tallest tales in sports history.
Raised as an orphan in England, Finch studied a year at Harvard, before dropping out and heading to Tibet, where he hoped to be a monk.