YouTube Gold: The Great Sidd Finch April Fool’s Prank

Baseball: April Fools’ Day Story: New Yort Mets (L-R) Lenny Dykstra (4), John Christensen (35), Dave Cochrane (62) in awe of (Joe Burton) fictional character Hayden Sidd Finch (21) during spring training. St. Petersburg, FL 3/17/1985 | Set Number: X31256 TK2

What a wonderful stunt that was

Over the years, we’ve seen many great April Fool’s pranks. In 1957, the BBC ran one on spaghetti trees. In 1980, the Beeb claimed Big Ben would go digital, which apparently didn’t go over very well.