Gotta be Dock Ellis. Who else do you know who would wear hair curlers to practice, trip acid and throw a no-hitter and throw a bat into the stands at a heckler?
But the clincher has to be in 1974, when Dock felt like his teammates were playing too timid and needed inspiration and announced before a game against the Reds, "We gonna get down. We gonna do the do. I'm going to hit these mother****ers." What followed was Ellis beaning Pete Rose, Joe Morgan and Dan Driessen, almost hitting Tony Perez on 4 straight pitches to walk a run home then throwing two pitches at Johnny Bench's head before he was yanked from the game.
Ellis said later, "I tried to deck him twice. I threw at his jaw, and he moved. I threw at the back of his head, and he moved."
2007-08-28
06:47:47
·
17 answers
·
asked by
Anonymous
in
Baseball