 Los Angeles, April 8, 1984- Former Pittsburgh
Pirates' pitcher Dock Ellis says he was under the influence of LSD when
he pitched a 1970 no-hitter against the San Diego Padres.
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- Ellis, now co-ordinator of an anti drug program in Los
Angeles, said he didn't know until six hours before his June 12, 1970
no hitter that he was going to pitch.
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- "I was in Los Angeles, and the team was playing
in San Diego , but I didn't know it. 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 noon.
At 1pm, his girlfriend and trip partner looked at the paper and said,
"Dock, you're pitching today!"
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- "That's when it was $9.50 to fly to San Diego. She
got me to the airport at 3:30. I got there at 4:30, and the game started
at 6:05pm. It was a twi-night doubleheader.
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- I can only remember bits and pieces of the game. I was
psyched. I had a feeling of euphoria.
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- 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.
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- 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. 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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- The Pirates won the game, 2-0, although Ellis walked
eight batters. It was the highpoint in the baseball career of one of the
finer pitchers of his time, and arguably, one of the greatest achievements
in the history of sports.
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- The Psychedelic Shakespeare Solution
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- Thanks to Michael Horowitz of Flashback Books for providing
this information which was printed in Lysergic World San Francisco, April
16-19, 1993
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