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Dock Ellis
Ultimate Mets Database popularity ranking: 266 of 1218 players
Ellis
Dock Phillip Ellis
Born: March 11, 1945 at Los Angeles, Cal.
Died: December 19, 2008 at Los Angeles, Cal. Obituary
Throws: Right Bats: Both
Height: 6.03 Weight: 205

Dock Ellis has been the most popular Ultimate Mets Database daily lookup 10 times, most recently on March 11, 2024.

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First Mets game: June 18, 1979
Last Mets game: September 19, 1979

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Mr. Sparkle
December 21, 2000
Another pitcher in a long line of guys who had a pretty good career only to come to the Mets very near the end to stink up the joint. Others- Mickey Lolich, Dick Tidrow, Mike Torrez, Warren Spahn,Frank Tanana, Orel Hersheiser (he was OK).

Logan Swanson
April 15, 2001
The real shock isn't that Doc was on acid: it's that while on acid, he and the Pirates took the Eastern Division over the Mets in 1970, '72, '74, and '75. Maybe they should have passed some of that stuff around to Harry Parker and Randy Tate.

Joe Figliola
March 7, 2003
Compared to Dock Ellis and the electric Kool-aid acid test of a no-hitter he threw, David Wells was a mere tee-totaller when he hurled that perfecto in the late 1990s.

The only eyebrow-raiser about Dock's Met tenure was that Topps issued a baseball card of him as a Met in 1980, even though he was off the team by mid-September, 1979. (I think the same thing happened with Ralph Garr, who was listed as a White Sox even though he had left the club for another team after 9-1-1979.) Go figure that!

kevin Sims
June 1, 2003
Hey Doc While you played Baseball you were great, but the greatness I remember of you was when you helped me along with my substance abuse problem. If you read this please contact me. Thanks

Kiwiwriter
July 5, 2004
He was one of baseball's more colorful characters.

I remember him coming on in the 17th inning of one of the Mets' many sea-serpent games, this one against the Pirates, and winning it. My brother lay down on three seats to relax and watch the game (that shows you how bad 1979 attendance was).

The Mets have played an awful lot of sea-serpents (my name for extra inning games).

Jonathan Stern
July 8, 2005
Dock Ellis once went onto the field wearing haircurlers. It was the 70's...

Mike
March 9, 2007
The only memory I have of Dock Ellis as a Met was when he spoke to CBS News after the death of Thurman Munson (the Yankees were on the road, so CBS went to Shea for fan reaction) Ellis spoke of when he and Munson were teammates with the Yanks.

I have that news clip.

scott r
December 22, 2008
Only memories of Dock were as one of the many former decent pitchers the Mets had in the late 70's early 80's that stunk with Mets and also, according to him he threw a no hitter while on LSD. Sorry to hear about his passing. R.I.P. DOCK

Metsmind
December 13, 2010
Who can forget the hair curlers? Ignore the druggie and trouble maker reputation, Dock Ellis was a fine pitcher and even better competitor. There is a story of him announcing he would end the Big Red machines intimidation of his Bucs, and then starting the game by hitting the first 3 Reds batters (Rose, Morgan, Driessen) and walking Perez only after Perez ducked the pitches aimed at him. Bench got lucky....the manager pulled Ellis after those 4 batters. At a time of social turmoil, he stood up and let the world know he was a black man to be taken seriously. To that end, he along with Vida Blue, became the first black pitchers to start the same All Star game. RIP Dock.

Larry’s (FakeMets) Memories
October 31, 2021
Ellis,D.! Another “Fake Met.” Also another ex-Met and Yank (though he was relevant to their 1976 AL pennant), but whose “home base” is Pittsburgh, where he appropriately ended his successful career after this fill-in-the-blank stint with the Mets in that dreadful yr of 1979, but glorious for Willie Stargell’s “Family”, welcoming back an ole brother from the 1971 WS Champs. Dock was left off the postseason roster, but was there to celebrate with his reacquainted Family. After Tom Seaver passed last year, I was sensitive to how the headlines introduced the story - it most succinctly identifies the subject and why their death is news. Thankfully, I didn’t come across that which I feared from writers & editors whose knowledge of baseball history is sketchy but would be factually correct: “ex-MLBer Seaver Dead” or “Seaver, Not the TV Dad, Dead.” But when Dock died, a headliner could’ve read: ”Ex-Met All-Star Ellis Has Passed Away.” That’s the problem I have with the Mets picking-up these has beens: they contribute nothing yet they’re “immortalized “ as ex-Mets. -indistinguishable from Real Mets (Tom Terrific, Kooz, Matlack, Cleon, Buddy, Tug, the Real Doc, Straw, Mookie, even Lee Mazzilli - all likewise can sloppily be identified with any of the other teams they played for.) So his legacy goes: Dock Ellis, ex-All-Star pitcher and World Series Champion with Pirates and colorful character; he succumbed to history of substance abuse at 63. RIP.








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