Starting with footage of Ellis on the mound during his no-hitter, the docu soon segues to his next most memorable dust-up with baseball authorities, when he wore his hair in curlers to practice at Wrigley Field. History buffs, particularly those of the era, will want a seat in the ballpark for Pittsburgh fans, this is a collectible. While the film’s sense of chronology is at times strained and its tale of redemption hardly unique, its subject is certainly one of a kind. In between, Radice pitches Ellis as part Jackie Robinson, part Muhammad Ali, part Timothy Leary, while stopping to pay homage to the 1971 Pirates, who took baseball integration to its color-blind limit, and won a World Series.
In first-time director Jeffrey Radice’s “No No: A Dockumentary,” the story of Dock Ellis, who famously threw a no-hitter on LSD for the Pittsburgh Pirates, begins as a celebration of the wild times that were the early ’70s, and ends with the reckoning of the years that came after he left baseball.
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