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Article: Sky's the limit for 'Sid The Kid': Fantasy /By Tom Borrelli.
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- The Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY)
- Article date:
- September 27, 2007
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Sep. 27--More than 22 years ago, before fantasy baseball had really taken off, George Plimpton penned an article for Sports Illustrated.
In it, Hayden (Sidd) Finch supposedly hit 168 mph on the radar gun in spring training for the New York Mets.
That turned out to be a fish story. But the remarkable feats of "Sid The Kid," Pittsburgh's 20-year-old super center Sidney Crosby, are very real. He's a no-brainer if you own the top pick in your fantasy hockey draft.
The sky truly seems to be the limit for Crosby, who led the National Hockey League in scoring last season with 36 goals, 84 assists and 120 points in 79 games. At 19 years, 244 days old he ...