Dock Ellis and the LSD No-No. This is awesome.

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Beautiful.

The only thing missing is the “blazing, comet-like trail” from the ball.

I miss Dock.

by Vlad on Nov 12, 2009 3:11 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Great stuff

If any one wants to learn more about Dock I recommend the book Dock Ellis in the Country of Baseball, it’s a nice look at a fascinating player/person, as well as baseball at that time.

by poobah on Nov 12, 2009 4:17 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Totally Awesome, Charlie

Love that it includes The Gunner’s play by play, and the immortal Green Weenie.

by WstCstBucco on Nov 12, 2009 5:18 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Great

Todd Snider released a song a few month back about Ellis and his no hitter. Here’s the link

"Baseball is better than football. Think about it, eighty degrees, a cold beer and a short-sleeve shirt is better than 30 degrees, a hip flask and six layers of clothes under a lap blanket. Take your pick: suntan or frostbite. " - Thomas Boswell

by Ketcham Bruce on Nov 12, 2009 5:34 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/blog/big_league_stew/post/ModernTube-Todd-Snider-riffs-on-Dock-Ellis-LSD?urn=mlb,169308

by Ketcham Bruce on Nov 12, 2009 5:34 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Who is narrating the video?

Is that a real interview with Dock with animation added later on? Or is the narration fabricated too? I don’t know what Dock’s voice sounded like.

I had heard that he was on LSD while pitching a no-no but I had always figured that he wasn’t having major visual hallucinations during the game. It sounds like he was having some visuals, which makes the no-no that much more impressive. I wonder if there is video footage out there of him diving out of the way of a soft ground ball to the third.

by houksyndrome on Nov 13, 2009 3:59 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

It sounded a lot like that.

But they might have just chosen a narrator with a voice similar to his.

by Vlad on Nov 13, 2009 7:04 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Yahoo's Big League Stew

reports:

It uses audio — which is precious to begin with — of Ellis telling the story himself on an NPR program broadcast in March of 2008.

Yahoo link (with NPR link)

by MDBuc on Nov 13, 2009 7:42 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

Try again

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/blog/big_league_stew/post/Dock-Ellis-no-hitter-on-acid-becomes-great-anim?urn=mlb,202172

(I am not the link meister)

by MDBuc on Nov 13, 2009 7:44 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

Try this:

Link.

by Vlad on Nov 13, 2009 9:20 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Thanks

by MDBuc on Nov 14, 2009 8:46 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

No problem.

Glad to help.

by Vlad on Nov 15, 2009 12:36 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Wow.

Just.

Wow.

Free your ass and your mind will follow.

by cocktailsfor2 on Nov 13, 2009 9:01 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

I always wondered what Doc's at-bats were like

at that game. I assumed he had to bat too. No record i can find of how he handled that part of the game.

by phil79 on Nov 14, 2009 11:50 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

Struck out first two times up ground out 6-1 last time. I’ll try to link again:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/SDN/SDN197006121.shtml

I need to read a tutorial on linkage. That made no sense on what I did and what came out.

by MDBuc on Nov 14, 2009 10:56 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I use raw HTML for mine...

…but if you want to do it the easy way, try clicking on the little picture of a chain above the text field when you post, and it’ll embed the link for you automatically.

If you want to do it the hard way, it goes like this: [a href=“http://www.yourlinkhere.com”]Your text here[/a], only with angled brackets (the ones that look like arrows, over the comma and the period on the keyboard) instead of square ones. It’ll come out looking like this: Your text here.

by Vlad on Nov 15, 2009 12:39 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs