One of the greatest sports stories of all time, by one of the greatest sports writers of all time, George Plimpton. I hope you can find this online:

https://www.si.com/mlb/2014/10/15/curious-case-sidd-finch

My homage to Sidd Finch:

He came. He went—a meteor, 

tall and spare, idiosyncratic, 

beyond the scope of . . . us.

He came. He showed that 

the impossible was possible, 

and he did so without words. 

He came, he took off his shoe, 

he picked up the ball, 

and then . . . he threw it. 

He came, and now he is gone. 

It is April, the game is on. 

Let us remember the man.