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Dock Ellis receives much notoriety for pitching a no-hitter, reportedly while using LSD. Very seldom do we hear much about the rest of his career or life.
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This program will delve into the “back story” behind that famous event, but will also look at Ellis’ early years as a prodigious young player, his playing career and his many antics, his struggle with drug use, his terms as player representative for three of the teams for whom he played and his strong convictions for racial equality and civil rights, and his efforts in later life to address various addictions among young people.
Presenter: Paul Geisler serves as pastor of Christ Lutheran Church in Lake Jackson,Texas, where he and his wife Susan are actively involved with the local community theater. They have three grown children. For his entire life, Paul has enjoyed all aspects of baseball – playing, watching, coaching, researching, and writing. He has written several articles for SABR and has worked with MLB on pitch tracking and for the Texas Rangers at the Ballpark in Arlington.
Paul holds a Bachelor of Arts degree (magna cum laude) with double major in Mathematics and Psychology from Texas Lutheran University and Master of Divinity and Doctor of Ministry degrees from Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago. He has also studied at Rice University in the Master of Liberal Arts Program.
Paul has published numerous articles in publications of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) and in Confluence, the journal of the Association of Graduate Liberal Studies Programs (AGLSP).
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