Editing Dock Ellis (section)

====The no-hitter in pop culture====
Ellis collaborated with future [[United States Poet Laureate]] [[Donald Hall]] on a book, ''Dock Ellis in the Country of Baseball'', published in 1976. The first edition of the book reported that Ellis had been drinking vodka on the day of his no-hitter. Hall updated the 1989 edition to reveal the LSD use.<ref>Mikkelson, David. (June 13, 2013). [http://www.snopes.com/sports/baseball/ellis.asp "Dock Ellis Pitched a No-Hitter on LSD?,"] Snopes. Retrieved on March 5, 2017.</ref><ref name=Citron>Citron, Rodger. (December 22, 2008). [http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/58622 "Another Reason for Remembering Dock Ellis,"] History News Network. Retrieved on March 5, 2017.</ref> Singer-songwriter [[Barbara Manning]] paid tribute to Ellis and his no-hitter in the psychedelic pop song "Dock Ellis",<ref>Sobsey, Adam. (October 29, 2014). [https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2014/10/29/future-eligibles/ "Future Eligibles,"] ''The Paris Review''. Retrieved on March 4, 2017.</ref> as did folk singer [[Todd Snider]] with "America's Favorite Pastime" on his 2009 album ''The Excitement Plan''. "Dock Ellis" is also a song by beatmaker Blazo and hip-hop duo [[The 49ers]] that talks about "musical addiction". A 2009 animated short film by James Blagden about the game, ''Dock Ellis and the LSD No-No'', features narration in Ellis' own voice, taken from a 2008 NPR interview.<ref name="nyt">Witz, Billy. (September 4, 2010). [https://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/05/sports/baseball/05nohitter.html "For Ellis, a Long, Strange Trip to a No-Hitter,"] ''The New York Times''. Retrieved on March 4, 2017.</ref><ref>Vanderbilt, Mike. (June 12, 2015). [http://www.avclub.com/article/45-years-ago-today-dock-ellis-pitched-no-hitter-wh-220797 "45 years ago today, Dock Ellis pitched a no-hitter while high on LSD,"] ''The A.V. Club''. Retrieved on March 4, 2017.</ref> The no-hitter is featured in the documentary about Ellis' life, ''[[No No: A Dockumentary]]'' (2014), directed by Jeffrey Radice.<ref>Gold, Daniel M. (September 4, 2014). [https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/05/movies/no-no-a-dockumentary-looks-at-dock-ellis.html "A Lightning Rod in a Game With Bats: 'No No: A Dockumentary' Looks at Dock Ellis,"] ''The New York Times''. Retrieved on March 4, 2017.</ref> [[Robin Williams]] riffed on Ellis and his no-hitter as part of a segment on performance-enhancing drugs in sports, during his 2009 [[HBO]] special ''Weapons of Self-Destruction''. In [[Hometown Hero (Poker Face)|a season 2 episode]] of [[Poker Face (TV series)|Poker Face]], a player laces another's gum with LSD in an attempt at sabotage, but inadvertently "Dock Ellis-ed him."<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-05-22 |title=Poker Face — Hometown Hero — Season 2, Episode 5 Spoiler Recap and Review |url=https://fandomwire.com/poker-face-hometown-hero-season-2-episode-5-spoiler-recap-and-review/ |access-date=2025-05-30 |website=fandomwire.com |language=en-US}}</ref>