Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Dock Ellis was at his girlfriend’s home in Los Angeles on June 12, 1970. At about 12 noon, he ingested some LSD, a psychedelic drug. He thought the Pirates weren’t scheduled ...

DETROIT, Mich. (WLNS) — Family members of Wynter Ava’Mae Cole-Smith, whose body was found in Detroit Wednesday, announced that it is collecting donations through the nonprofit Dock Ellis Foundation. A ...

Follow our live coverage of MLB All-Star Game 2022. There was no chance Dock Ellis would be named the starting pitcher for the National League in the 1971 All-Star Game. That’s what the Pittsburgh ...

In 2008, a year before the great Dock Ellis died at 63, radio producers Donnell Alexander and Neille Ilel, recorded an interview in which the former Pirate right hander gave a moment by moment account ...

Dock Ellis, an eccentric baseball pitcher who once threw a no-hitter while high on LSD and who later counseled athletes and prisoners on the dangers of drugs, died Dec. 19 at the University of ...

In his psychedelics-induced mind, Ellis thought he was pitching to Jimi Hendrix who was holding his guitar instead of a bat. “It was easier to pitch with the LSD," Ellis said. "That’s the way I was ...

Sometimes we are a little bit hard on our favorite newspaper, the New York Times, because it is a little bit for old people, sometimes stodgy or sexless or scared to say words like “shit.” It is fun — ...

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, and you’ll only ...

Denver police are still investigating the death of a 16-year-old girl, who investigators believe was killed Monday morning. The victim, identified as 16-year-old Tayanna Manuel, was last seen late ...