Forty years later, baseball fans still believing in Sidd Finch-like hope

Source: New York Post

Access the Mets beat like never before Don’t miss Mike Puma’s text messages from Queens and beyond — he’s giving Sports+ subscribers the inside buzz on the Mets. Sign up Now Here IS reason number infinity-plus-nine why baseball is the best: On Monday the sport was seized by the latest in batsmanship — and could you even imagine the look on Abner Doubleday’s face if, sometime in the 1870s or so, someone had informed the good general that someday there would be an invention called the “torpedo bat?”  That was a fun day, because that new bat story managed to touch on both the ultra-serious and the ultra-silly wrinkles of the game. But it is also a real-life thing.