No No: A Dockumentary Page #10

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one more to make

the final score 7-2.

That was about the end of dock

as a star, but it was a

very stirring comeback by him,

and attributable,

very stirring comeback by him,

and attributable,

I think, to his skill and to

the force of his personality.

I think him and steinbrenner

had some kind of disagreement,

and I was telling him to chill

out, because I love New York,

I didn't want him

to go anywhere.

And of course, he was so

stubborn and bull-headed,

he wanted to speak his mind, and

that ultimately got us traded.

It was a little surprising,

and I think the Yankees

it was a little surprising,

and I think the Yankees

traded him to Oakland,

as I recall, and he wasn't

pitching very well there,

and so we thought we might

be getting a guy who

had suddenly lost it.

But corbett did a lot of things

without explaining them

to anybody.

Brad was a swashbuckling

character who operated on whims,

and so I think he said, this is

the guy we need at the back end

of our rotation now.

And you know what, he was right.

In 1977, when dock came into

the rangers, what I recall

is when I looked at dock on

TV or when I saw him pitch,

is when I looked at dock on

TV or when I saw him pitch,

I thought, I don't want to

meet him in an alleyway.

We were Miles apart in terms of

who we would run around with,

and so our relationship

was strictly professional.

Jim Reeves:
In '78 is when

he had the big clash

with Billy hunter.

Billy hunter was old-school

baseball, and dock Ellis

was new-school baseball.

You know, baseball was under

a transition at that time.

You know, baseball was under

a transition at that time.

We were moving away from

basically indentured servitude

to the free agent market.

And the old-school guys

were used to saying,

"you do it my way."

Billy had a, like a lot of

old-school managers did,

had a team rule that players

could not drink

at the hotel bar where

the team was staying,

because that bar was reserved

for the manager.

But dock didn't like that rule,

and he basically led a player

but dock didn't like that rule,

and he basically led a player

revolt saying, "we're grown men,

we can do what we want to,

we can drink where we want to."

He wasn't going to let

Billy hunter take away

what he felt like

were his rights.

And that was kind of

the essence of dock.

Billy hunter was just considered

by the players too dictatorial,

too hard-ass.

And they let him go.

And they let him go.

Dad was a players' owner,

and he listened to the players.

In some ways, Brad corbett

was a father to dock.

Dock may have seen something in

Brad that he may have liked

to have experienced later

on with his father,

and never had the opportunity

to do that.

Dock and dad loved each other.

They were truly friends.

A lot of fond memories of dock.

A lot of fond memories of dock.

And you know, one of the things

that was so amazing about dock

is now we know that he was

really loaded some of the times,

and he never really

seemed out of control.

He seemed like he was having

a good time, you know.

My Uncle remembered one time

when he came over and he drank

a bottle of vodka in 45 minutes,

and he said he didn't seem

any different after the

bottle of vodka was gone

any different after the

bottle of vodka was gone

than when he showed up.

Austine Ellis:
When he was

around me, he wasn't

a sloppy drunk.

He spoke well.

I didn't... maybe I was blind

to it, but like I said,

he wasn't what I thought a drunk

was at the time, you know.

Dock:
'Cause I would drink

chivas regal in the morning,

and then some orange juice

or coffee, it didn't make me

no damn difference.

But then, when I go to lunch,

I'm going to eat olives

but then, when I go to lunch,

I'm going to eat olives

from the Martinis,

and I would slip out,

and I was gone to my local bar.

I was drinking the

vodka and sh*t.

Dock was on the back side.

Dad loved dock as a person,

but it was time to move on.

Dock:
The last team I

pitched for was the pirates.

They let me come back

and die a pirate.

That's what I asked them, to let

me come back and die a pirate,

end my career as a pirate.

Dock was a meaningful guy in

my life, and to watch him pitch

and be as good as he was,

and then to get him back,

he was at the end and he knew

he was at the end.

But I was happy to see him back,

because hey, it's dock,

and dock has something to offer.

And dock has something to offer.

And dock said, "I'm shot,

I don't have anyth...

"My arm's gone.

I don't have anything."

It kinda...

It hurt.

Ray Jones:
You know when you're

getting close to the end,

you know?

Even when he'd say,

son, my arm is hurting.

Hey, it's over.

He'd say, hell, he can't even

break glass, you know.

But hell, you done had,

you had a hell of a run.

Dock:
Anything that would

get me high, I would do it.

Dock:
Anything that would

get me high, I would do it.

Cocaine, heroine, mescaline,

crank, alcohol...

I mean, I had guys who'd get

something on the street and say,

"dock, I wonder how high

this would get you."

I'd say, "pinch off some

and let me check it out."

I just remember one

night I drove home,

and I was getting out of the car

and dock came out of the house,

and I didn't think

anything of it.

And I didn't think

anything of it.

I had a babysitter

there at the time.

And anyway, to make a long story

short, he was angry and drunk...

And I didn't know

what was going on.

So, I managed to get the

little girl, the neighbor,

and I took her home, and I made

the mistake of going back.

And I guess he had just gotten

the news of him being released,

and I guess he had just gotten

the news of him being released,

so from about 12 in the evening

until 5:
00 in the morning,

he took it out on me...

With guns and rifles

and shotguns,

revolvers in my mouth,

and it was devastating.

He had never done that before,

and he managed to let me

he had never done that before,

and he managed to let me

call a girlfriend, and I told

her to call the police.

And she did.

And the police came, but because

I wasn't screaming or anything,

they didn't enter.

So I guess he finally

got tired or whatever,

and I told him I had

to go to the restroom,

and so he carried me

to the bathroom.

And then he wanted

to have relations.

And then he wanted

to have relations.

And I'm like, you've

got to be kidding me.

And so, we got in the bed,

and he says,

"if I go to sleep, are

you going to kill me?"

And me thinking of my son, I

said, "no, I wouldn't kill you."

I was just so hurt that he did

that, because we were so close,

and we would walk in the room

and people wanted to be us,

because, I mean,

I don't know,

it was just a great

relationship.

It was just a great

relationship.

And I was just so hurt that

after the way he treated me

that he could do that, you know.

And so, I didn't go to sleep.

And when it got light, I was

getting up, and he says,

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