Dock Ellis, the free-spirited ... He was also fined by the Pirates for wearing his hair in curlers and refusing to sign autographs. In 1975, he was suspended indefinitely by the team for throwing ...

On Friday, the 50th anniversary of Dock Ellis ... with his hair in curlers. “I was anti-management because I didn’t want anyone to tell me how to dress, who to date,’’ Ellis said ...

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.

The answer, Dock Ellis, is the subject of an ingratiating, vibrant and sometimes surprising documentary, No No: A Dockumentary, that premiered at Sundance in January, then made it back to SXSW ...

In 1970, as a member of the Pittsburgh Pirates, Dock Ellis pitched a no-hitter on LSD ... for pregame warmups with pink curlers in his hair. In his later years, he would even come to be ...