Ryan thrilled middle-aged folks everywhere by giving a kid a lesson. In this case, the kid was Robin Ventura of the White Sox, who rapped a first-inning RBI single off Ryan. When Ventura batted again in the third inning, Ryan hit him with a pitch. Ventura angrily charged the mound, ...
The Fastest Pitch.(Nolan Ryan)(Brief Article)Hillman, John
He was also the first pitcher to officially record a pitch at more than 100 mph, and the first to earn a $1 million salary. Stockton President Harvey Kesselman, left, with Leo S. Ullman as Ullman signs an agreement to donate his collection of Nolan Ryan memorabilia to the university. The...
-- From "Nolan Ryan's Pitcher's Bible"There had never been a pitcher like Nolan Ryan, and there will never be a pitcher like Nolan Ryan, and if you had to sum up his singularity in one sentence, it would be this: He made every single pitch count.No, it was more than that. He...
Dodgers ace Max Scherzer got the last three outs in the thrilling Game 5 of the NL Divsion Series and is now lined up to throw the first pitch for Los Angeles in the NL Championship Series. J.R. Richard, power pitcher for Astros in '70s, dies at 71Read full article: J.R. Richard...
Nolan’s first foray into big-star, major-budget studio filmmaking seemed, at the time, the most natural — and accomplished — of evolutions. Remaking the acclaimed 1997 Norwegian thriller, a film that featured the up-and-coming Stellan Skarsgård and that anticipated the pitch-black Scandinavi...
"I was so set on the music stuff, but I had the dream of going and hitting batting practice with somebody if I was on the road, or throwing a first pitch at a game or doing something like that," he revealed, opening the door for either of Texas' MLB franchises to extend Bryant...
Nolan is such a fan of ‘Saving Private Ryan’ that he actually consulted with Steven Spielberg before mounting his own war movie ‘Dunkirk.’ Speaking to Variety about Spielberg’s WWII drama, Nolan raved, ‘The film has lost none of its power. It’s a truly horrific opening, and there...
Facing Nolan: Dirigido por Bradley Jackson. Con Alan Ashby, Buzzie Bavasi, Craig Biggio, Lela Bivins. In the world of Major League Baseball no one has created a mythology like Nolan Ryan. Told from the point of view of the hitters who faced him and the t
Photo : Joel Ryan/AP/Shutterstock Michael Caine (Actor) The actor most associated with Nolan’s career is Michael Caine, who has been cast in eight of the director’s movies: “Batman Begins,”“The Prestige,”“The Dark Knight,”“Inception,”“The Dark Knight Rises,”“Interstellar,”“...