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Nolan Ryan - Good Ole' Boy From Texas
I grew up an Angel fan and Nolan Ryan was one of my favorite players. He was a no-nonsense ball player who could throw the ball 100 miles an hour. A Hall of Fame Great.
Ryan was traded to the Angels in 1972 (I was 13 years old) along with pitcher Don Rose, catcher Francisco Estrada and outfielder Leroy Stanton for shortstop Jim Fregosi. One of the best trades the Angels ever made. Fregosi was near the end of his creer and Ryan was just getting started.
Nolan Ryan at a Glance
Lynn Nolan Ryan, Jr. (born January 31, 1947 in Refugio, Texas) is a retired Major League Baseball pitcher and current president of the Texas Rangers.
Ryan played in a major league record 27 seasons for the New York Mets, California Angels, Houston Astros, and Texas Rangers, from to . He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1999.
Ryan, a hard-throwing right-handed pitcher, threw pitches that were regularly recorded above , even past the age of 40. The media tagged him, or more specifically his pitching, as "The Ryan Express" (a reference to the 1965 film Von Ryans Express).
While his lifetime winning percentage was a relatively pedestrian .526, Ryan was an eight-time MLB All-Star, and his 5,714 career strikeouts rank first in baseball history. He leads the runner-up, Randy Johnson, by 839 strikeouts as of October 4, 2009. Similarly, Ryans 2,795 bases on balls lead second-place Steve Carlton by 962?walking over 50% more hitters than any other pitcher in Major League hist...
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Nolan Ryan's Major League Milestones
- Major League Debut - Sept. 11th 1966 for the New York mets
- Win-Loss Record - 324 Wins -292 Losses. He played for some pretty bad teams but still managed to win 324 games.
- Career Strikeouts (Major League Record) 5714
- Career E.R.A. 3.19
- Played for 4 major league teams.
* New York Mets (1966, 1968-1971)
* California Angels (1972-1979)
* Houston Astros (1980-1988)
* Texas Rangers (1989-1993) - He is the all-time leader in no-hitters with seven, three more than any other pitcher. Tied with Hall of Famer, Bob Feller for the most one-hitters with 12. Ryan also pitched 18 two-hitters.
- Appeared in 8 All-Star Games
- Final Game Played was September 22, 1993 for the Texas Rangers
- First-Ballot Hall of Famer - 1999 with 98.2% of the vote.
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- CJ CJ Mar 17, 2008 @ 1:33 pm
- Nolan Ryan A historic journey of excellence four volumes presented by Tarrant Printing......The Life and times of Nolan Ryan. This was a collectible honoring Nolan Ryan produced around 1991 or 1992.....Included is a nice poster, four cards from Score (still factory sealed), A four volume booklet series covering Nolan's career with lots of pictures....Volume 1: "The Alvin Years", Volume 2: "The Mets and Angel Years", Volume 3: "The Astros and Rangers Years", Volume 4: "The Road to Cooperstown".....All nicely encased in a cardboard folder with Styrofoam protection. It's currently listed on E-Bay.
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