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Forty Years Later, Time to Celebrate Dock Ellis' LSD No-Hitter

The 40-year anniversary of Dock Ellis' no-hitter, famously pitched while he was on LSD, falls on Saturday. In honor of one of the most astonishing feats in baseball history, and the release of Big Hair and Plastic Grass: A Funky Ride Through Baseball and America in the Swinging '70s by Dan Epstein, we bring you an excerpt...

Dock Ellis' LSD-Fueled No-Hitter Brought to Life

Dock Ellis pitched for the Pirates from 1968-1975, and he won 19 games during the team's 1971 World Series season. But he's best remembered for three incidents, all of which are marginally related to baseball, mostly in a "Yeah, Dock did something insane again ... oh, and he happened to be at work when it happened" sorta...

The Dugout: Ellis in Wonderland

With all of the Winter Meetings fanfare and "who will maybe/maybe not go where" conversations on the Internet, the death of former major league pitcher Dock Ellis has pretty much gone under the radar. An All-Star who won 19 games for the World Series champion Pirates in 1971 and boasted a none-too-shabby lifetime ERA of...

Dock Ellis News From the Web

04/11/12 Emily Luchetti Hawks Giants-Themed Cookies on Opening... Source: SF Weekly - San Francisco CA The terms "baseball" and "baked goods" don't normally go together -- unless you're talking about Dock Ellis, the former Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher who managed to toss a no-hitter while high on acid.

Background on Dock Ellis

Dock Phillip Ellis, Jr. (March 11, 1945 – December 19, 2008) was a professional baseball player who pitched for the Pittsburgh Pirates, among other teams in Major League Baseball.

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