Dock Ellis

Everyone should learn about Dock Ellis, a major league pitcher known for his years spent with the Pittsburgh Pirates. During this time he was involved with several mishaps, including one game where he decided he was going to hit every single batter on the Cincinnati Reds and another time when he beaned Reggie Jackson after Reggie hit a homerun off him. Ellis was most famously known for a game on June 12th, 1970 when he pitched a no-hitter. In 1984 Dock Ellis revealed that he was on LSD when he pitched that game. On his Wikipedia page is a quote in which he says:

"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. I started having a crazy idea in the fourth inning that Richard Nixon was the home plate umpire, and once I thought I was pitching a baseball to Jimi Hendrix, who to me was holding a guitar and swinging it over the plate. 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."

While surfing the internet, I stumbled upon this animation about this event. It is definitely worth a watch or two:

Dock Ellis & The LSD No-No from NoMasTV