Very cool animation.
Form VeryShortList.com:
There’s been a lot of hand-wringing about baseball and the use of performance-enhancing drugs, but consider this: In 1970, one major leaguer threw a no-hitter while high on acid and Benzedrine. Dock Ellis & the LSD No-No is the hilarious animated short that tells this truly incredible tale.
Featuring narration by Pittsburgh Pirate Dock Ellis himself (he recorded the interview for the radio program Weekend America in March of 2008 before passing away in December), Brooklyn illustrator James Blagden’s four-and-a-half-minute short cleverly matches the appropriate animated image to the story. “It was easier to pitch with the LSD because I was so used to medicating myself,” says Ellis, who thought at one point in the game he had made a touchdown. “That’s the way I was dealing with the fear of failure, the fear of losing, the fear of winning.”
You can read a fair portion of the neo-classic here, courtesy of Google Books.
is available on Amazon.com,
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interesting that in the country of baseball, there is no mention of LSD…not even when discussing the non hitter. Come to think of it, I’m not even sure the no hitter is even mentioned. And the only reason I read the book and liked Dock Ellis…I’m sad to say…was the LSD infamy..but after reading the book, I kind of like his little rebellions and there were many more other than the LSD no hitter if you can all that a rebellion..
But the book is rather tedious if you ask me except the unbelievable first three or four pages which is an absolute mythology called baseball.
interesting that in the country of baseball, there is no mention of LSD…not even when discussing the non hitter. Come to think of it, I’m not even sure the no hitter is even mentioned. And the only reason I read the book and liked Dock Ellis…I’m sad to say…was the LSD infamy..but after reading the book, I kind of like his little rebellions and there were many more other than the LSD no hitter if you can all that a rebellion..
But the book is rather tedious if you ask me except the unbelievable first three or four pages which is an absolute mythology called baseball.
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