Doc Ellis on pitching a no hitter in the world series on LSD

[spinCycle]

Absolutely true :thumb_up:

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[PupilOfPerception]

Thank you for posting this, I'd never heard this story before and it's awesome!!! I love this quote from the Wikipedia page about him:

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, 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. 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. I started having a crazy idea in the fourth inning that Richard Nixon was the home plate umpire, and once I thought I was pitching a baseball to Jimi Hendrix, who to me was holding a guitar and swinging it over the plate. 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.

Sounds like good times! Keeping your head in front of all of those people would've been quite a feat in itself, even if he pitched a normal game!