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En route to his no-hitter, Dock Ellis pitched 9.0 hitless innings, issuing eight walks, while also recording six strikeouts. Thanks to a two-run home run from Willie Stargell, ...
In 1970, Scipio Spinks and Dock Ellis were young Major League pitchers — Spinks for the Astros, Ellis for the Pirates — who had taken the era’s free-love-and-free-drugs ethos to heart.
Fifty years ago, on June 12, 1970, Dock Ellis’ friend rushed him to LAX so he could make a 3:30 flight back to San Diego, floating him the $9.50 fee for the hourly shuttle.
On Friday, the 50th anniversary of Dock Ellis’ no-hitter for the Pittsburgh Pirates, his claim about having pitched the game under the influence of LSD remains a matter of debate.
Dock Ellis famously pitched a no-hitter after he dropped LSD. But, as filmmaker Jeffrey Radice shows in his new documentary, there was much more to the story of the former Pirates All-Star. Radice ...
In 1970, as a member of the Pittsburgh Pirates, Dock Ellis pitched a no-hitter on LSD.. This fact has become baseball legend, and Ellis a cult hero. There are T-shirts that state this achievement.
Dock Ellis, the former major league pitcher who claimed to have thrown a no-hitter while on LSD but later turned his exploits into the basis of an anti-drug crusade and counseling career, died ...
On June 12, 1970, Pirates pitcher Dock Ellis did something that, by all rights, should be completely impossible: He went and threw a no-hitter despite being high as a kite on lysergic acid ...
On June 12, 1971, Dock Ellis of the Pittsburgh Pirates pitched a no-hitter against the Padres. That game has since become the stuff of legend - not because of ...
Dock Ellis, who died in 2008, is probably best known as the man who pitched a no-hitter while tripping on LSD in 1970. And from its title, viewers might assume that "No No: A Dockumentary" will ...
“No No: A Dockumentary” eagerly reasserts that maverick big-league baseball pitcher Dock Ellis was more than the sum of his headlines. Ellis, who starred for the Pittsburgh Pirates in the ...