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O'Malley tortillaWhen circumstances conspire to allow you to run a photo of the late Dodgers owner Walter O'Malley's face on a tortilla, you take it. Also on exhibit at the Baseball Reliquary show in Pasadena through September 30: the pink foam hair curlers and gray permanent rods worn on the field by Dock Ellis, the only major leaguer known to have pitched a no-hitter while tripping on LSD (June 12, 1970, versus the Padres.) In Dock's defense, he thought his Pirates had the day off.


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