[EveningStar]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dock_Ellis

[buccaneer81]

Those Pittsburgh uniforms were really something.

[Charles Henrickson]

"Dock was such a likeable person -- very gregarious, very outgoing. I would set up personal appearances for him, and after like 30 seconds, people were like relatives or neighbors. Dock was very easy to talk to. He was just a pleasure to be around."

I met Dock Ellis back in the early 1970s (I was in my late teens, he was in his mid-20s) and had a good conversation with him. He was a friendly, gregarious guy--I have to agree. A bit of an odd duck, had the reputation for being a wild guy, but he did have a certain likeability and charisma.

[Charles Henrickson]

[martin_fierro]

He and Luke Garber signed my baseball mitt one night at the old Three Rivers Stadium.

I guess his “Goo Goo Ga Joob” comment makes more sense now.

[the invisib1e hand]

"Dock was such a likeable person -- very gregarious, very outgoing. I would set up personal appearances for him, and after like 30 seconds, people were like relatives or neighbors. Dock was very easy to talk to. He was just a pleasure to be around."

Sorta like John Rocker, eh?

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Got to die of something!

[Charles Henrickson]

Dock in later years:

[steelyourfaith]

Dock said that two brothers would not be starting pitchers in the 1971 All Star game. Wrong.

[fkabuckeyesrule]

In one game against the Cincinnati reds Dock Ellis hit the first three batters.

To see his carer stats go here:

http://baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=ellisdo01

[BansheeBill]

More info here:
http://www.erowid.org/chemicals/lsd/lsd_history3.shtml

He may have been the first person to refer to a no hitter as a “no no”, and he did it at the game piched while on LSD.

[B-Chan]

Willie Stargell is welcoming him in Baseball Heaven...

[NCPAC]

I loved Dock Ellis.

A friend of mine and I went to see the Yanks play the O’s in 1976. After the game, we were waiting at the pass gate as the Yankee players came out to board the bus.

Ellis walks out and my friend yells, “Hey! Doc Medich!” (He’d just gotten the last name confused - and Medich had previously pitched for the Yankees.)

Anyway, Ellis looked at us smiled and pointed at himself. Then he said something along the lines of “Me? No, man, I’m the REAL Dock...and I’m Ellis!” It was great.

We all laughed like hell - and we both got his autograph out of it.

[egannacht]

As a kid I knew Doc was good but never knew he was odd. From Wikipedia:

According to Ellis:
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. 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.[4]

Attempting to hit every batter in the Cincinnati Reds lineup on May 1, 1974. In an effort to prove a point to teammates, Ellis hit Pete Rose, Joe Morgan, and Dan Driessen in the top of the first. The clean-up batter Tony Perez avoided Ellis’ attempts, instead drawing a walk, and after two pitches aimed at the head of Johnny Bench, Ellis was removed from the game by manager Danny Murtaugh. Ellis’ box score for the game reads: 0 IP, 0 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 0 K.[5]

[Mark]

Better life through chemistry. Better.... but shorter.

[fieldmarshaldj]

RIP.