Dock Ellis and the LSD no-no.

From apparel to artwork, the enlightened minds at No Mas toil under the banner, "The thrill of victory, the ecstasy of defeat." Few enough of us consider that, we believe: the sweet melancholic rapture that is hard-earned defeat. They recently produced the following, an animated short film chronicling Dock Ellis' 1970 no-hitter, which he threw while "high as a georgia pine," and which reminds us all of a pleasanter time, a more innocent time, before steroids and HGH and BALCO, when all a man needed was a few tabs of acid and a bagful of benzedrine.

VALLEY