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June 16, 2013
Performance Enhancement
The game started and a mist started, a misty rain. So all during the game was a little mist.
The opposing team and my teammates, they knew I was high, but they didn’t know what I was high on. They had no idea what LSD was other than what they see on TV with the hippies. It was easier to pitch with the LSD because I was so used to medicating myself. That’s the way I was dealing with the fear of failure, the fear of losing, the fear of winning. It was part of the game, you know. You get to the Major Leagues, and you say, “I got to stay here, what do I need?” Dock Ellis, from an interview. Ellis finished the 1970 season fourth in the National League for shutouts—with four—and the following season he went 19-9, pitching thirty-one games, eleven of them completely.
Posted by gerardvanderleun at June 16, 2013 12:25 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.