Dock Ellis and the LSD No-No. This is awesome.
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Charlie Wilmoth
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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.
Totally Awesome, Charlie
Love that it includes The Gunner’s play by play, and the immortal Green Weenie.
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
"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 up reply actions
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.
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)
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.
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.
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.
Thanks again
Let’s give it a try, not the Pirates, but it is baseball and animated. (strong language alert)
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