Literary birthday greetings: Dock

March 11, 2011

Dock Ellis, perhaps baseball’s trippiest pitcher, was born this date in 1945.

Here‘s the entry I posted upon his untimely death in 2008.

And a Robin Williams homage to Ellis’ most impressive feat: pitching a no-hitter while on LSD.

The pitcher collaborated with the eminent Donald Hall on Dock Ellis in the Country of Baseball in 1976.

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