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1970: Pirates pitcher Dock Ellis throws no-hitter...

 
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 9:49 pm    Post subject: 1970: Pirates pitcher Dock Ellis throws no-hitter... Reply with quote

...one of only 263 in MLB history...

...and the only known one thrown by a pitcher on acid.

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2665745/dock_ellis_and_the_lsd_nohitter.html?cat=14
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 9:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Gotta read the entire Ellis quote:

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"I can only remember bits and pieces of the game. I was psyched. I had a feeling of euphoria.

I was zeroed in on the (catcher's) glove, but I didn't hit the glove too much. I remember hitting a couple of batters and the bases were loaded two or three times. The ball was small sometimes, the ball was large sometimes, sometimes I saw the catcher, sometimes I didn't. Sometimes I tried to stare the hitter down and throw while I was looking at him. I chewed my gum until it turned to powder. I started having a crazy idea in the fourth inning that Richard Nixon was the home plate umpire, and once I thought I was pitching a baseball to Jimi Hendrix, who to me was holding a guitar and swinging it over the plate.

They say I had about three to four fielding chances. I remember diving out of the way of a ball I thought was a line drive. I jumped, but the ball wasn't hit hard and never reached me."

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