The story of Dock Ellis reads like a great American tall tale, a ’70s equivalent of Paul Bunyan or John Henry. A major-league baseball pitcher in the years when the sport was riddled with eccentrics and facial hair, Ellis had an outsize, utterly reckless personality. He beaned batters at will. He feuded and drank. And, in a notorious 1970 incident recounted in the new Todd Snider song “America’s Favorite Pastime,” Ellis threw a no-hitter…supposedly while on LSD. Read more »