Drinking, smoking and drugs are not beneficial to athletes and cause strange behavior. Their useage is not a new occurrence for the sports World.

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Bill "Spaceman" Lee, Boston Red Sox pitcher, earned his name "Spaceman" for his rampant drug use. He regularly sprinkled pot on his pre-game organic pancakes for good luck.  Guess what, the drugs made him do strange things. Supposedly during one game he asked the umpire to do something about the trees in center field.  Since retiring he ran for president in 1988 and campaigned on the slogan "No guns. No butter. Both can kill".  He failed to appear on any state ballot.




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Supposedly, pitcher Dock Ellis never played a major league game sober. On May 1, 1974, for instance, Ellis attempted to hit every batter in the Cincinnati Reds’ lineup. In the first inning alone, he hit Pete Rose, Joe Morgan, and Dan Dreisen. Tony Perez dodged four pitches and walked, but after Johnny Bench nearly got it twice, Ellis was taken out of the game. By far, Ellis’ oddest accomplishment though was on June 12, 1970, when he became the only major league baseball player ever to pitch a complete no hitter game while tripping on acid.




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Dick Trickle, the man with the funniest name in Nascar racing was known for drilling holes into his safety helmet so he didn’t have to stop for cigarette breaks while racing. He smoked through his altered headgear. He had cigarette lighters installed into all of his cars, so he never had to ask his pit crew for a light.





In one of the most infamous pre-game blunders of all time, Barret Robins, the former All-Pro center for the Oakland Raiders, stunned his team (and thrilled bookies) when he went AWOL two days before Super Bowl XXXVII. Apparently, the quest for cheaper alcohol led the depressed Raider all the way to Tijuana, where he landed in a Mexican hospital.


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Lawrence Taylor, the New York Giants All-Star was turned onto cocaine as a NFL rookie, and within three years he was nose deep in crack. He stated, “I’d go through an ounce a day. At times I’d be standing in the huddleand instead of thinking what defense we were playing I’d be thinking about smoking crack after the game.” Lawrence Taylor tried to compensate the effect of drugs with a special tactic: sending hookers with special instructions to wear out his opponents the night before a game.