A year before, radio producers Donnell Alexander and Neille Ilel, had recorded an interview with Ellis in which the former Pirate right hander gave a moment by moment account of June 12, 1970, the day he no-hit the San Diego Padres. Sadly, the great Dock Ellis died last December at 63. Of the 263 no-hitters ever thrown in the Big Leagues, we can only guess how many were aided by steroids, but we can say without question that only one was ever thrown on acid. If our evaluation of the records of athletes like Mark McGwire, Roger Clemens, Marion Jones, and Barry Bonds needs to be revised downwards with an asterisk, we submit that that Dock Ellis record deserves a giant exclamation point. In the past few years we’ve heard all too much about performance enhancing drugs from greenies to tetrahydrogestrinone, and not enough about performance inhibiting drugs.
In celebration of the greatest athletic achievement by a man on a psychedelic journey, No Mas and artist James Blagden proudly present the animated tale of Dock Ellis’ legendary LSD no-hitter. For the box score of the game go to and for more info on Dock Ellis visit Wikipedia. He went 13-10, and helped the Pirates win their first of three divisional championships.In honor of the apparent LSD-aided no-hitter by Dock Ellis from the year 1970, created a cartoon, which was published on YouTube on Wednesday. The Pirates won the game, 2-0, despite Ellis walking eight batters. But Cash wanted to keep the pitcher loose and happy, so he smiled and said nothing.ĭoc Ellis went on to finished the game without a hit. "I've got a no-no going!"Ĭash gave him a blank look. "Hey, look," said Dock, pointing at the scoreboard. Dock was staring at the scoreboard when he realized he'd pitched hitless ball for seven innings. "The Pirates were clinging to their 1-0 lead. I jumped, but the ball wasn't hit hard and never reached me." (LW, 1993) I remember diving out of the way of a ball I thought was a line drive. They say I had about three to four fielding chances. I chewed my gum until it turned to powder. Sometimes I tried to stare the hitter down and throw while I was looking at him. The ball was small sometimes, the ball was large sometimes, sometimes I saw the catcher, sometimes I didn't. I remember hitting a couple of batters and the bases were loaded two or three times. I was zeroed in on the (catcher's) glove, but I didn't hit the glove too much. Dock easily retired three batters in a row. Dock had a crazed look in his eyes and his lack of control was evident to the batters, many of whom were feeling increasingly vulnerable in the batter's box. All he had to do was steer the ball down the multicolored path. As long as he kept to his fastball, the comets kept burning across the plate. "Dock felt wobbly on the mound and his stomach was churning with acid cramps. Dock wound up and threw a hot one over the the corner of the plate - a swinging strike! In was no ordinary pitch: The ball burst from Dock's hand and left a blazing, cometlike tail that remained visible long after the ball was caught. The ball hit the ground about two feet in front of the plate and skipped into May's glove. He nodded his head and went into his windup, falling slightly off balance in the process. He squinted to see catcher Jerry May's hand signals. "His fingers tingled as he squeezed the ball. Dock marched to the mound, wondering if he'd last the inning. "Dave Roberts, the Padres' pitcher, had an easy first inning, ending with Roberto Clemente hitting one back to the box. He makes it to the game and after having someone help him find his locker, he suits up and enters the game. I got there at 4:30, and the game started at 6:05pm. "That's when it was $9.50 to fly to San Diego. He snatched the paper, scanned the box scores, and read: "Dock, it says here you're pitching today!"
Dock put on a record, while his girlfriend read the paper." "A few minutes later, his girlfriend returned with coffee, donuts, and the morning paper. Three hits of LSD were ready and waiting in the refrigerator."
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Why shouldn't he? As far as he knew, the team had an off day and he planned to take full advantage of it. Here are some interesting excerpts from an account of the game in the August 1987 issue of High Times magazine and from a Lysergic World article from 1993. Reportedly he wrote about the experience in his authobiography (Dock Ellis in the Country of Baseball) published in 1976.
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One of the local TV stations refered to it as Milacki's "no-no," a term that originated with Dock Ellis's no-hitter back on June 12th, 1970 for the Pittsburgh Pirates.ĭock pitched that game on acid. No-hitters are pretty rare and this one made the news everywhere. You may have heard about "no-hitter" that Bob Milacki's of the Oakland A's pitched last week.