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I wasn’t going to say anything, but since they seem to be aiming in my direction, I’m going to say things. Look around, there are fellows who wear white shoes in practice. “I know the orders came from Bowie Kuhn, and I don’t like it. An angry Ellis denounced the order to the press, maintaining that it was discriminatory and had been issued at the behest of the commissioner’s office: When Ellis started leaving the curlers in place as he exited the clubhouse to take part in pregame warm-ups (where they could be seen by early-arriving fans), he was ordered by management to remove them henceforth before setting foot onto the field. In August 1973, after Ebony magazine ran a piece featuring Ellis’ variety of hair styles, the pitcher took to wearing curlers to the ballpark.(The Cincinnati Reds ball club later apologized to Ellis and fired Hatter, and the Pirates’ general manager issued ID cards to all the Pittsburgh players.) Ellis was brought before Municipal Court in Cincinnati for disorderly conduct a few months later, but the charges were dropped after his attorney reported to the court that Ellis and Hatter had settled their differences. The guard, David Hatter, maintained that Ellis had failed to adequately identify himself, “made threatening gestures with a clenched fist,” and was carrying a half-empty bottle of wine Ellis denied that he had intended to punch the guard or was carrying a bottle of wine and claimed he was rebuffed (and sprayed with mace) despite proffering his World Series ring as proof of identity.

On, Dock Ellis engaged in an argument with a security guard who barred him from entering through the players’ gate at Cincinnati’s Riverfront Stadium and then maced him.

Ellis’ intolerance for slights which he perceived to be related to the color of his skin was well-established long before he reached the major leagues (he declined to play on his high school’s baseball team because it was coached by a “racist,” and while in the minor leagues he once took a bat into the stands in pursuit of a racially-motivated heckler), and he was the subject of several headline-grabbing altercations during his prime years in the big leagues:

Links and tutorials for downloading and playing the game on an emulator can be found here.Dock Phillip Ellis, best remembered as the winningest pitcher on the champion 1971 Pittsburgh Pirates baseball club, was also one of his sport’s more colorful personalities, although his exploits were generally overshadowed by those of players (Curt Flood, Richie Allen, Reggie Jackson) more talented and more controversial. If you have any knowledge of the game that is currently undocumented, feel free to contribute! Info on proper editing can be viewed here. This is a Wiki about LSD: Dream Emulator, a Japanese PlayStation 1 game based on a dream journal kept for ten years by author Hiroko Nishikawa, and adapted by Osamu Sato.