David Wells threw a perfect game when he was hungover
"I think I got home at 5:30, probably got two-and-a-half hours of sleep. I knew this was not good, so I just tried to stay away from everybody, was worried someone might get high off the fumes. I had consumed a lot of alcohol."
Despite a skull-crushing headache and reeking of booze, the New York Yankees' David Wells pitched a game for the ages.
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Immortalized 19 years ago today, David Wells, his Yankees teammates and the batters he baffled recall how he joined one of baseball's most exclusive clubs.
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Dock Ellis threw a no-hitter (but with 8 walks) while he was warped out on acid.
"I can only remember bits and pieces of the game. I was psyched. I had a feeling of euphoria. I was zeroed in on the [catcher's] glove, but I didn't hit the glove too much. I remember hitting a couple of batters, and the bases were loaded two or three times. 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. They say I had about three to four fielding chances. 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."
Baseball’s great psychedelic myth took place five decades ago, but the man behind it was far more than an amusing sidenote in the sport’s history
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