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This Day In History - June 12, 1970
    #7036983 - 06/12/07 07:08 AM (16 years, 8 months ago)

June 12, 1970 - Dock Ellis, Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher, pitches a no-hitter - on LSD

When the subject of baseball and drugs comes up, the story of Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Dock Ellis and his celebrated "LSD No-Hitter" stands out above all others. On June 12, 1970, the 25-year-old pitcher was between starts, so he stayed back in his Los Angeles hotel while his team flew on to San Diego to play the Padres. Ellis invited his girlfriend over, and they dropped hits of acid around noon.

As he tells it in his autobiography, In the Country of Baseball:

"I had taken LSD ... I thought it was an off day. That's how come I had it in me. I took the LSD at 12 noon. At one, my girlfriend looked in the paper and said 'Dock, you're pitching today'."

The original starting pitcher for the Pirates was a last-minute scratch due to an injury. Dock's girlfriend drove him to the airport for a 3 p.m. flight. With great difficulty, he managed to get to the ballpark on time. He was on the mound throwing the first pitch at 6 p.m. It was the first game of a two-night doubleheader against the Padres.

"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."

"The ball was small sometimes, the ball was large sometimes; sometimes I saw the catcher, sometimes I didn't."

He saw comet-tails on every pitch. He was wild that evening, walking eight batters, but pitched that rarity -- a no-hitter. For advocates of the mind-expanding properties of psychedelic drugs, this was the stuff of legend.

Ellis waited until 1984 to reveal that he was on acid the night he achieved baseball immortality. Back in 1970, it would have been damaging to his career to make that admission publicly. By 1984 he was out of baseball, working as a drug rehabilitation counselor, and he decided to set the record straight.

LSD wasn't his only drug. Ellis sometimes swallowed 10-15 amphetamines before a game. "I was going out there on the average of 75 milligrams," he says. "Some guys I pitched against, we would try to guess which one of us was higher."


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Re: This Day In History - June 12,1970 [Re: veggie]
    #7037041 - 06/12/07 07:43 AM (16 years, 8 months ago)

Nice one veggie, I remember reading about that a while ago, great story.:grin:

I would love to see footage of that game, probably hard to track down.

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No-hitting the San Diego Padres on June 12, 1970 despite being, as he would claim in 1984, under the influence of LSD throughout the course of the game.
Ellis has claimed that the ball actually talked to him during the hallucination, advising him which pitches to throw.




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Re: This Day In History - June 12,1970 [Re: UnderNose]
    #7037529 - 06/12/07 11:15 AM (16 years, 8 months ago)

<<"Some guys I pitched against, we would try to guess which one of us was higher.">>

:lol:


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Re: This Day In History - June 12,1970 [Re: SuperD]
    #7037583 - 06/12/07 11:24 AM (16 years, 8 months ago)

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<<"Some guys I pitched against, we would try to guess which one of us was higher.">>







:rofl2:

i know that made me laugh pretty good


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Re: This Day In History - June 12,1970 [Re: biggysmall]
    #7037849 - 06/12/07 12:46 PM (16 years, 8 months ago)

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biggysmall said:
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<<"Some guys I pitched against, we would try to guess which one of us was higher.">>





:rofl2:

i know that made me laugh pretty good




I thought it was hilarious too. I sent this to my wife and under that quote I put "now I understand why people like baseball"...as I was never much a baseball fan.

She replied that didnt matter anyways...lest we forget that the government now controls the substance use/abuse policies of MLB for some unknown reason.


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Re: This Day In History - June 12, 1970 [Re: veggie]
    #7038243 - 06/12/07 02:28 PM (16 years, 8 months ago)

I've been looking for a Dock Ellis throwback jersey for a while and can't find one at all.  :mad2:

On the roster his name appears as... Ellis D.  :smirk:


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Re: This Day In History - June 12, 1970 [Re: Cowgold]
    #7038272 - 06/12/07 02:38 PM (16 years, 8 months ago)

Heh, I never even thought of that.


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Re: This Day In History - June 12, 1970 [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #7038353 - 06/12/07 03:01 PM (16 years, 8 months ago)

:lsd:Ellis D.:lsd:
I like that coincidence.

Anyone think that game was recorded on film or what.


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Re: This Day In History - June 12, 1970 [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #7038355 - 06/12/07 03:01 PM (16 years, 8 months ago)

:badcomputer:
Damn double post shit
sorry everyone.  :whistling:


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Re: This Day In History - June 12, 1970 [Re: UnderNose]
    #7038671 - 06/12/07 04:33 PM (16 years, 8 months ago)

i wonder if anyone else has tried it since? even if he pitched shitty, i bet it would have been a lot of fun.


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Re: This Day In History - June 12, 1970 [Re: UnderNose]
    #7038714 - 06/12/07 04:45 PM (16 years, 8 months ago)

Where did this article come from?


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Re: This Day In History - June 12, 1970 [Re: FurrowedBrow]
    #7038974 - 06/12/07 06:09 PM (16 years, 8 months ago)

The question is, do you have to be on LSD to enjoy baseball?


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Re: This Day In History - June 12, 1970 [Re: Sebastian23]
    #7039202 - 06/12/07 07:17 PM (16 years, 8 months ago)

Yes and No.


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Re: This Day In History - June 12, 1970 [Re: Sebastian23]
    #7039577 - 06/12/07 09:09 PM (16 years, 8 months ago)

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The question is, do you have to be on LSD to enjoy baseball?




no, but you'd have to be on something..


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