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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.
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