On Friday, the 50th anniversary of Dock Ellis’ no-hitter for the Pittsburgh Pirates, his claim about having pitched the game under the influence of LSD remains a matter of debate. It also has ...

In 1970, Scipio Spinks and Dock Ellis were young Major League pitchers — Spinks for the Astros, Ellis for the Pirates — who had taken the era’s free-love-and-free-drugs ethos to heart.

Fifty years ago, on June 12, 1970, Dock Ellis’ friend rushed him to LAX so he could make a 3:30 flight back to San Diego, floating him the $9.50 fee for the hourly shuttle. He arrived at San ...

In 1970, as a member of the Pittsburgh Pirates, Dock Ellis pitched a no-hitter on LSD. Now, nine years after his death at age 63, Dock Ellis’ name is synonymous with the baseball game he pitched ...

Dock Ellis, the former major league pitcher who claimed to have thrown a no-hitter while on LSD but later turned his exploits into the basis of an anti-drug crusade and counseling career ...

On June 12, 1970, Pirates pitcher Dock Ellis did something that, by all rights, should be completely impossible: He went and threw a no-hitter despite being high as a kite on lysergic acid ...

Dock Ellis, the MLB pitcher most famous for once throwing a no-hitter while high on LSD, led a very interesting life. So it should come as no surprise that a documentary on him, now in the ...

On this day in 1974, Dock Ellis tried to send a message that they would not be intimidated, in his own special way. It would be easy to be intimidated by the Cincinnati Reds in the 1970's.

Kurt Bevacqua was shagging in the outfield when Dock Ellis jogged past. Ellis stopped to offer a wager. The stakes revolved around a steak. Advertisement “Hey rook,” Ellis told Bevacqua ...

As Dock Ellis left the trainers’ room and passed by the media corps, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported, a sportswriter said to the starting pitcher, “Good luck, Dock. Win this one ...