Oh! Darn it, Darth, another illlusion shattered. ; -)
Still a great story though.
"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."
I recommend watching the film No No: a Dockumentary. I believe it's on Netflix. Dock Ellis certainly was a character. Professional sports doesn't have guys like that anymore - guys who are unique characters on their own - only bland automatons.
I watched that one! Fantastic bioflick
The 'Talent'/ specific inclinations, & brain-cell, configurations.. that make for a notewothy 'artist'..'author' or 'craftsman' etc ..Will normally mean - That, they Won't be also excelling, in some other endeavor. o: