Video: Dock Ellis & The LSD No-Hitter
By Rob Tornoe | December 31st, 2009 | PERMALINK
Billed as a “celebration of the greatest athletic achievement by a man on a psychedelic journey,” No Mas and artist James Blagden have created a brilliant animated short about former Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Dock Ellis, and his legendary LSD-driven no-hitter over the San Diego Padres in June of 1970.
Narrating the video is Dock Ellis himself, from an interview he recorded in 2007 with producers Donnell Alexander and Neille Ilel. The original four minute piece appeared March 29, 2008 on NPRs Weekend America.
No Mas writes on his YouTube channel:
In the past few years weve heard all too much about performance enhancing drugs from greenies to tetrahydrogestrinone, and not enough about performance inhibiting drugs. If our evaluation of the records of athletes like Mark McGwire, Roger Clemens, Marion Jones, and Barry Bonds needs to be revised downwards with an asterisk, we submit that that Dock Ellis record deserves a giant exclamation point. Of the 263 no-hitters ever thrown in the Big Leagues, we can only guess how many were aided by steroids, but we can say without question that only one was ever thrown on acid.
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