When Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Dock Ellis threw a no-hitter on LSD: “I’m as high as a Georgia pine"

World Series champion Dock Ellis was a star MLB player of his time but unfortunately had a substance abuse issue. The former Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher also once admitted that he never pitched without taking drugs.

Ellis once threw a no-hitter against the San Diego Padres while under the influence of LSD. As reported by the Guardian in 2020, Ellis once said:

“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.”

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