How Dock Ellis dropped acid and threw a no-hitter
In , 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.
“We were the two guys everybody said wouldn’t live to see 30,” says Spinks, talking to The Post about the release of “No No: A Dockumentary,” a new film about Ellis, who gained notoriety for pitching a no-hitter under the influence of LSD.
“I pitched every game in the major leagues under the influence of drugs,” he once said of his year baseball career.
Ellis, who died in , speaks in the film via interview footage.
We did everything, tried everything and partied all the time. We would try to see who could out-amphetamine one another&#; Dock was a little bit more intense than I was. He did things higher and harder than anyone else.
- Scipio Spinks, ex-MLB pitcher
According to him, speed pills were consumed by around 90 percent of major-league players at the time.
“We did everything, tried everything and partied all the time. We would try to see who could out-amphetamine one another,” says Spinks, noting that the normal dose was 5
No No: A Dockumentary
On June 12, , Dock Ellis threw a no-hitter for the Pittsburgh Pirates. In years of baseball history, only no-hitters have been recorded. Dock is the only pitcher to ever claim he accomplished his while high on LSD.
During his 12 years in the major leagues, Dock lived the expression &#;Black is Beautiful!&#; He wore curlers on the field. He stepped out of his Cadillac wearing the widest bell bottoms and the broadest collars. When he put on his uniform, he was one of the most intimidating pitchers of the s.
Dock was often at the forefront of controversy and has been called the “Muhammad Ali of Baseball.” He was an outspoken leader of a new wave of civil rights in sports, when black athletes were no longer content to accept second-class treatment or keep their mouths shut about indignities. For this, the press labeled him a militant.
After Dock retired from baseball, he was as outspoken about his addictions to alcohol and amphetamines (aka “greenies”) as he had been about racial prejudice during his career. He spent his last decades using that blunt honesty as a counselor helping other addicts, until his death from liver disease in
Since the
It's a story almost too good to be true.
June 12, , a baseball player with a head full of acid pitches a no-hitter. For those of you unfamiliar with baseball terminology, a no-hitter is a near-mythical occurrence. It means that a pitcher has prevented the opposing team from achieving even a single hit during the course of a game. It's an exceedingly infrequent event in baseball - one that becomes even more improbable when said pitcher happens to be under the influence of a potent psychedelic.
For years, Dock Ellis existed as a bizarre footnote in pop-culture ephemera. The animated internet short "Dock Ellis & the LSD No No" featured Dock's voice recounting what was going through his head during the outlandish episode. Though the segment did drum up a renewed interest in the former major league baseball player, Dock Ellis was still a guy whose fascinating life story remained untold. That was until filmmaker Jeffrey Radice began work on a full-length documentary on the man.
The most surprising thing about the film is that Ellis' famed no-hitter isn't even close to the most interesting thing about his life. Dock was a complicated man, one who challenged r
Animated Video: Dock Ellis Throws a No-Hitter Against the Padres While Tripping on LSD ()
For a sport obsessed with statistical averages, baseball seems to thrive like no other on outrageous anecdotes and singular characters. One of those characters, pitcher Dock Ellis, had a drug-fueled run in the 70s with the Pittsburgh Pirates, claiming that he almost never pitched a game sober, including several National League East Championships and a World Series win. The drugs eventually became too much and he got help, but they gave Ellis his career best anecdote, the story he tells in the short film above, “Dock Ellis and the LSD No-No.” It’s animated by James Blagdon from an interview Ellis gave to Donnell Alexander and Neille Ilel that aired on NPR in March of
In June , Ellis took a day off, dropped acid at the airport and, “high as a Georgia pine,” checked into a friend’s girlfriend’s house to enjoy the rest of his trip. He woke up two days later, still tripping, went to the stadium, took some stimulants—which “over 90% of the league was using,” he says—and got to work, pitching a no-hitter against the San Diego Padres. “I didn’t
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