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Dick Ellis didn’t know he was going to be pitching a baseball game on June 12, 1970. He thought his Pittsburgh Pirates team had the day off.

At midday, he and his girlfriend took LSD. An hour later, just as the first wave of hallucinations would have been kicking in, his girlfriend saw in the newspaper that there was a Pirates game scheduled, and Ellis was pitching :

    “I can only remember bits and pieces of the game. I was psyched. I had a feeling of euphoria.

    “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 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.”

Ellis pitched an historic no hitter and the Pirates won 2-0, despite the problems with the ball changing size in his hand.

Remarkable.

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