#dock ellis

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Credit Ray Stubblebine AP

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Dock Ellis (11 March 1945 – 19 December 2008)

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On this date, in 1971, the Pittsburgh Pirates fielded the first all Black / Latino starting line-up in NL/AL history.

24 years after Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier, history was made yet again. History I believe deserves celebration of equal measure.

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Dock Phillip Ellis Jr. (March 11, 1945 – December 19, 2008) was an American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a right-handed pitcher from 1968 through 1979, most notably as a member of the Pittsburgh Pirates teams that won five National League Eastern Division titles in six years between 1970 and 1975 and won the World Series in 1971

Ellis threw a no-hitter on June 12, 1970, and later stated that he accomplished the feat under the influence of LSD

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Fun fact

Dock Ellis never pitched a single MLB game sober. He was always under the influence of something, weed, alcohol, uppers, he even pitched a no no while on LSD.

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