A week after the anniversary of the Sidd Finch April Fool’s joke, retired middle school teacher Joe Berton (who played the role of the fireballing pitcher in the Sports Illustrated article ...

It took four decades, but “Sidd Finch” finally made it to a Mets home game. Joe Berton, the man whom Sports Illustrated photographed to depict a fictional Mets mega-prospect in an instant ...

A middle school art teacher took the baseball world by storm as a yogi, who also played the French horn, and was going to be the next great Mets pitcher.

The person who played Finch was then high school teacher Joe Berton, a friend of SI photographer ... announced that Finch had retired from baseball for good, and a few days later, they revealed ...