How many strikeouts did pitcher Nolan Ryan have in his career?”
I follow baseball. I find it intellectually engaging without being stressful. I don’t follow any team and I don’t have strong feelings about most players. I follow the various teams and I enjoy the statistics. But if there is a player I’ve not liked over the years, it is Nolan Ryan. Mr. Ryan always struck me as more about macho than about a team approach. He appeared to me always as a macho Texan Lone Ranger type. Mr. Ryan is from Texas. Here is Nolan Ryan’s career record. Here is a profile of Mr. Ryan. (Above is a picture of Mr. Ryan in action. At the bottom of the post is a picture of Warren Spahn.) The reason I’ve never liked Mr. Ryan is summed up by his former pitching coach the Hall of Fame pitcher Warren Spahn. Mr. Spahn spoke of Mr. Ryan in the book The Only Game In Town:Baseball Stars of the 1930’s and 1940’s Talk About The Game They Loved. This book is a series of oral accounts of baseball back in the day that was compiled by former Baseball Commissioner Fay Vincent. Here is w
I follow baseball. I find it intellectually engaging without being stressful. I don’t follow any team and I don’t have strong feelings about most players. I follow the various teams and I enjoy the statistics. But if there is a player I’ve not liked over the years, it is Nolan Ryan. Mr. Ryan always struck me as more about macho than about a team approach. He appeared to me always as a macho Texan Lone Ranger type. Mr. Ryan is from Texas. Here is Nolan Ryan’s career record. Here is a profile of Mr. Ryan. (Above is a picture of Mr. Ryan in action. At the bottom of the post is a picture of Warren Spahn.) The reason I’ve never liked Mr. Ryan is summed up by his former pitching coach the Hall of Fame pitcher Warren Spahn. Mr. Spahn spoke of Mr. Ryan in the book The Only Game In Town:Baseball Stars of the 1930’s and 1940’s Talk About The Game They Loved. This book is a series of oral accounts of baseball back in the day that was compiled by former Baseball Commissioner Fay Vincent. Here is w
