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BONUS: $100 countdown incentive for pa- $300 $300 tients chosen to participate and who complete study. $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 CALL PAULL RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 776-0400 Ryan still hot after 21 years in the majors MILWAUKEE (AP) — At age 42, Nolan Ryan could be working his cattle ranch in Texas instead of working over big league hitters as he has done the past 21 years. But pitching is more profitable, especially when neither you nor your fastball show signs of slowing down. Even at that, there seems little left to accomplish — save another World Series championship — for the new est member of the Texas Rangers, whose biography and accompanying records occupy 10 pages in the press guide. Ryan holds 41 major league re cords, including most career strike outs. He’s thrown five no-hitters. Who can top that? Maybe Ryan himself as he nearly did Wednesday night against the Milwaukee Brew ers when he lost a bid for a sixth no hitter in the eighth inning. But he got his first victory of the season and his ability to still domi nate a game was evident from start to finish as he overpowered the Brewers with his 90 mph fastball and teased them with his changeup. He gave up only one hit in his eight in nings, walking two and striking out a club-record 15, including six straight at one point. “I would like to throw another no hitter,” said Ryan, who has gone nearly eight years between hitless masterpieces. “But my attitude about it is if it happens, that’s fine. That’s not something you can work towards. “My attitude is that last year 1 lost one in the ninth so I don’t start antic ipating those things. The main thing is to win the game,” Ryan said. He is still working to relearn the hitters in the American League, at least the ones still around from his last days with the California Angels in 1979 before he joined the Hous ton Astros. The hitters must also learn Ryan. Some already know. Terry Francona knew Ryan from his playing days in the National League and he broke up the no-hit bid Wednesday night with an eighth-inning single. “What’s so impressive about him is when I faced him in 1981, ’82 and ’83, he threw a hard fastball and breaking balls. Now he’s throwing changeups or whatever. I’d give him more credit except we have to face him next weekend,” Francona said. With 4,798 career strikeouts, Ryan is an unassuming millionaire. He signed a $1.8 million contract as a free agent with the Rangers during the offseason. “I don’t make any predictions. I’ve been blessed with a good arm and body and I think the fact I’ve concentrated on proper mechanics and my conditioning routine is pay ing dividends,” Ryan said. “But I can’t say I’ve done some thing different than other pitchers.” Except strike out nearly 5,000 bat ters in a career that began with the New York Mets back in 1968. “I’ve probably surpassed my ex pectations by 10 years,” Ryan said. “I don’t have any way of gauging how long I’ll continue to pitch. At the end of the season, I’ll evaluate how things went and how I feel physically and what the club’s attitude is. Then I’ll make a determination from there.” Page 10 The Battalion Friday, April 14, Astros’ early season attendance down from ’88 HOUSTON (AP) — Attendance at the first nine Astros baseball games is down from a year ago, lead ing to speculation that fans are still upset about the club’s failure to keep hometown favorite Nolan Ryan. “That Ryan deal has a lot to do with it,” said Astros fan Sal Ramirez of Sweeny. “You can just tell, it’s mattered with the fans.” Through the Astros’ first nine games this season, paid attendance has been 135,069, or an average of 15,007 fans per game. That’s down 32 percent from last year’s nine- game paid total of 197,892 — 21,988 average. Many fans blame the slow start on Astros majority owner John McMul len, who did not re-sign Ryan, the all-time strikeout leader who now pitches for the Texas Rangers. Some also blame him for not having or al lowing general manager Bill Wood to make trades to strengthen the club. Houstonian Glenn Miller said he has noticed different, less supportive attitudes toward the Astros early in the season. He suggested that the sit uation might improve if the Astros, now 3-6, play better baseball. “As they say, winning solves a lot of problems. If the team gets back to playing .500 ball, or a little better people will start making it to the games,” Miller said. But the loss of Ryan also is a fac tor, Miller said. “A lot of people resented them letting him (Ryan) go. I invited a guy, a business friend out(toagame Wednesday), and he said, ‘Hell, I’m boycotting them. Thanks, but no thanks’,” Miller said. Even some of the players believe that the loss of Ryan has not been quickly forgotten. “A lot of fans got disgusted by the Nolan Ryan situation. There are all kinds of factors involved,” said first baseman Glenn Davis. TANK ftPNAMAKA* by Jeff Millar & Bill Hinds I Vol. 88 No-1 ■ Spirit ol Junior Elemer College Hills during Youth F Mouo GoinAG? 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