No Mas Presents: Dock Ellis & The LSD No-No by James Blagden

In celebration of the greatest athletic achievement by a man on a psychedelic journey, No Mas and artist James Blagden proudly present the animated tale of Dock Ellis' legendary LSD no-hitter. In the past few years we've heard all too much about performance enhancing drugs from greenies to tetrahydrogestrinone, and not enough about performance inhibiting drugs. If our evaluation of the records of athletes like Mark McGwire, Roger Clemens, Marion Jones, and Barry Bonds needs to be revised downwards with an asterisk, we submit that that Dock Ellis record deserves a giant exclamation point. Of the 263 no-hitters ever thrown in the Big Leagues, we can only guess how many were aided by steroids, but we can say without question that only one was ever thrown on acid.

Sadly, the great Dock Ellis died last December at 63. A year before, radio producers Donnell Alexander and Neille Ilel, had recorded an interview with Ellis in which the former Pirate right hander gave a moment by moment account of June 12, 1970, the day he no-hit the San Diego Padres. Alexander and Ilels original four minute piece appeared March 29, 2008 on NPRs Weekend America. When we stumbled across that piece this past June, Blagden and Isenberg were inspired to create a short animated film around the original audio.

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[SPIKEJONES12211]

oooo I just made a touchdown

[RockLobsta23]

@BarcaFury seriously? I've done LSD 3 times over my entire life. All it does is make me more enlightened and informed about what drugs actually do than you, not a druggie.

[tititgoreng]

@TheMainalt have u ever tried any psychedelics?

[tititgoreng]

@BarcaFury Lol typical ignorant bastard!

[AlPal5000]

this is the best video on all of youtube

[idontlike101]

What other drugs were the rest of the 90% MLB players taking? LOL the lil' green pills? What are they?

[AllieBomba]

when can we expect the Oil Can Boyd cartoon!!!

[Metallica032693]

@number9scheme

How have more people not noticed the brilliance of this comment?

[RiceTactics]

love this video... does anyone know the song at 1:00?

[joslinnick]

@Jilliodeath benzos (benzodiazepines) are not the same as Benzies (Benzedrine). The first is, like you said, a sedative. The Benzies like Dok said, are stimulants. 

[d0tg0bl3r]

@Jilliodeath its a completely different drug than the benzos we have now, read about it in the book "Iced: Crystal Meth: the Biography of North America's Deadliest New Plague"

[Jilliodeath]

@d0tg0bl3r Nah, benzos can't be stimulants. All benzos, and drugs related to benzos are hypnotics and or sedatives, meaning they pretty much do the opposite of stimulants. They make you drowsy and or fall asleep.

'Just snorted 8 grams of coke guys, I better be off to bed'