Did Timothy Leary supply the LSD for Dock Ellis's no-hitter baseball game? (Probably not)

Lisa Rein from the Timothy Leary Archives sez, "ESPN's Patrick Hruby did a piece a few weeks ago investigating Dock Ellis' claim that he pitched a no-hitter on LSD in 1970. We had a few more details and clarifications to add (regarding the origin of the LSD), and of course, threw in a few more fun pieces of historical Dock Ellis baseball memorabilia."

One of Hruby’s sources said Ellis told him that Leary had been “interested in researching the effect of LSD on professional athletes. The professor had approached the pitcher: Would Ellis take a tab of LSD, play, and then report on the experience?”
Although it sounds like an experiment Tim would have loved to conduct, given his fascination with LSD, baseball, and experiential science, the fact is he was in prison during the 1970 baseball season, nor did he ever mention it to Michael, although they discussed Dock’s feat on several occasions. Dock might have been told the LSD originated with Tim, as the man and the drug were virtually synonymous back then, but there’s no evidence they ever met in person.

Dock Ellis, Timothy Leary, LSD and America’s Favorite Pasttime (Thanks, Lisa!)

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TooGoodToCheck

I love the title of this post. I am invariably irked by headlines which say “Did exceptional interesting thing happen!?” and then the article is a long form of the answer “no.”
- niktemadur
  
  Some myths sound too good to go away. It’s conceivable that in a few years, the question will resurface with Stanley Owsley as the culprit, instead of Tim Leary. Maybe it already happened and we didn’t notice.
- Beanolini
  
  Betteridge’s Law of Headlines states that “Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word ‘no’”.
DisGuest

Did Timothy Leary supply the LSD for Dock Ellis’s no-hitter baseball game?

The answer to any Timothy Leary question, regardless of whether it makes sense or not, should be: No, no, no, no, he’s outside looking in.
http://twitter.com/jswainhart Jeffrey Swainhart

Here’s the story from the Doc himself. It’s a trip! http://youtu.be/_vUhSYLRw14
timquinn

Leary was the mastermind of the worldwide LSD distribution cartel. Even from within prison his will and desire was respected by his entire network of petty criminals and paid off insiders. Leary could be a frightening man when upset. Those eyes . . . of course he was responsible, it was a huge PR ploy and sales soared, especially to professional athletes, who were known to have paid thousands of dollars for tiny pieces of untouched cellophane tape in the more desperate days of the late acid scare of the early 1970s. Only the brutal work of Nixon’s G-men was able to stomp out the problem. It was years before professional athletes were taken seriously again.
- retchdog
  
  in an alternate universe… where we won the war on drugs.