No No: A Dockumentary Page #2

Synopsis: In the 1970s Dock Ellis pitched a no-hitter on LSD and his outspoken style courted conflict and controversy, but his latter years were spent helping others recover from addiction. No No: A Dockumentary weaves a surprising and moving story of a life in and out of the spotlight.
Director(s): Jeff Radice
Production: The Orchard
  1 win & 3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.2
Metacritic:
68
Rotten Tomatoes:
96%
NOT RATED
Year:
2014
100 min
Website
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called time and said,

"he's throwing a spitball."

The home plate umpire told

the third base umpire

to get back to third base.

"You don't know what

you're talking about.

He throws a natural sinker."

He came out one day with

curlers in his hair,

and it, you know,

everybody was shocked.

And it, you know,

everybody was shocked.

I was sitting in the dugout with

Danny murtaugh, the manager,

and he says to me,

"hey, is this your buddy there?"

And I looked at him and

thought, "oh, my God.

Is this dock?"

And I looked again and it was

dock there, and there were

red and blue and yellow curlers

on his head.

Danny murtaugh came to me,

and he said, "Bob," he said,

"go out there in the bullpen

and tell dock

to take the curlers

out of his hair."

So I walked out, and dock knew

why I was coming out there.

He said, "alright.

What do you need?"

I said, "well..."

I said, "well..."

"'Bout my hair, isn't it?"

And I said, "yeah."

It was no big thing to me.

You know, I saw curlers

all the time.

And maybe it was

a cultural thing.

You know, in the black

community, you saw, you know,

sometimes men with

curlers in their hair.

So it wasn't nothing new to me.

(Music)

He always had a purpose

of doing something.

He always had a purpose

of doing something.

A lot of people thought

dock was crazy.

Dock wasn't crazy.

Dock knew a lot more than other

people, and he proved points

by making them on the

baseball field.

He took stands.

He felt that the brothers should

be able to wear their hair

any way they damn well please.

Dock:
In wearing the

curlers on the field,

i was defying the club because

they said I couldn't wear

the curlers because it wasn't

part of the uniform code.

That's not acceptable.

That's not the image that

major league baseball

that's not the image that

major league baseball

wants to portray.

Dock:
I was anti-management

because I didn't

believe in anyone trying to tell

me how to dress, who to date.

I remember one time I had my

hair braided and they wanted

to know what is that about.

Don't ask me about my

hair being braided.

Get out of my face.

When he decided to wear curlers,

they suspended him for 10 days,

but we resisted the suspension,

and it went away.

Dock:
You know, it's not that

you got to watch how I dress.

Dock:
You know, it's not that

you got to watch how I dress.

You got to watch how I play.

Baseball in that decade really

collided with pop culture

in a way that it never

had previously.

We saw players expressing

themselves in ways that,

you know, the media and baseball

fans weren't really

used to seeing.

He had a certain style on

the field and off the field.

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