BalletX’s new full-length Nicolo Fonte ballet is lush, gorgeous, and was wonderfully danced when it opened Thursday night at the Wilma Theater. But Sidd: A Hero’s Journey, based on Hermann Hesse’s ...

I have been honored to be part of the Mets organization for 46 years now. Over that time, I have been associated with some pretty great events. One thing I am extremely proud of is to have played a ...

It took Sidd Finch 40 years to get to a Mets home game. 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 ...

The sport of baseball has always been tightly coupled with pranks and practical jokes. Maybe it's because players spend 162 games together, live in close quarters for nearly half a year, or that the ...

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 ...

For Lane Stewart, the phone call from his wife alerted him to what was about to happen. “My wife worked for Life Magazine,” he says over the phone, “and they had a sports writer and she says, ‘He just ...

The day the famous Sports Illustrated story about the Mets and a phenom pitcher hit newsstands, telephones all over New York and Florida started ringing. In Jay Horwitz’s office, a furious sports ...