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...while under the influence of LSD. If you're looking for footage of the fabled game, you're not going to find it - no tape has ever surfaced, and Major League Baseball hasn't rushed to dig through its archives for documentation of the psychedelic affair. But animator James Blagden has created something arguably better: a black-and-white short film to accompany Ellis' own account - taken from a 2008 interview with American Public Media - of his trippy day on the mound...
...Nixon calling balls and strikes and coping with a ball that constantly shifted in size. But despite these drug-induced hallucinations (and eight walks), Ellis stifled the Padres, striking out six. It may not be an achievement Major League Baseball is eager to commemorate, but Ellis would likely find Blagden's cartoon tribute enough. He died in 2008, after retiring from the major leagues to become a career drug counselor in Los Angeles...
...wife's wardrobe (Sophia's first ball dress, a "superb brockade," was "paletinted, low-neck, and short-sleeved"). Other minor details abound from the cost of Hawthorne's trip from Rome to Florence (95 scudi, with an additional five crowns for the tip) to the name of Isa Blagden's lapdog (Frolic...
Sept. 19: Maryland Banker Blagden H. Wharton will go on trial in Anne Arundel Circuit Court in Baltimore on charges of perjury and falsifying campaign contribution reports concerning a dinner held for Agnew...
...There is no noun of assembly for cats," said the fourth leader. "Scorning to go about in packs or herds or even in a pride, they walk by themselves." Judge Basil Blagden of Cliffords Inn promptly begged to differ. "Sirs," he wrote, "You have, I believe, for once fallen into error ... Cats . . . assemble, on the rare occasions when they do so, in a 'clowder' and kittens in a 'kindle...