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Dock Ellis: My baseball hero [animation]

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  1. the futants

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    "Ooh, I just made a touchdown!" (3:07)

    Awesome. "Turn on, tune in, drop out, pitch no-hitter."

    And yet, every time I show up at work with dilated eyes, they tell me I'm the one who is being irresponsible?
     
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    From Wikipedia: Dock Ellis' June 12, 1970 No-Hitter:
    [rquoter]...As Ellis recounted it:

    "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. I started having a crazy idea in the fourth inning that Richard Nixon was the home plate umpire, and once I thought I was pitching a baseball to Jimi Hendrix, who to me was holding a guitar and swinging it over the plate. 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."[/rquoter]
     
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    Todd Snider has a song on his latest album about this very incident..."America's Favorite Pastime."
     

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