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r AUSTIN (AP) — A sign outside an
Austin restaurant summed up the attitude
of many as news circulated of Hall of
Fame pitcher Nolan Ryan’s emergency
heart surgery:
■‘Don’t worry Nolan. You have the
heart of a champion. Get well soon.”
’A Ryan, 53, was in stable condition
Monday after undergoing two hours of
emergency double bypass heart surgery
Sunday afternoon at the Austin I lean
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home of the Texas Rangers, the last
team Ryan pitched for — fans will
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he has the heart of a
30-year-old. We feel
confident that he is
going to recover fully.”
— Reid Ryan
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really respond
to,’ team
spokesman John Blake said. The team
will send the cards to Ryan when he gets
out of the hospital in a week, he said.
■ Blake said the team set up similar
cards when Ryan retired from the ball-
clubin 1993.
■ Ryan and his wife, Ruth, were in the
■stin suburb of Round Rock to watch
the Round Rock Express, a minor league
baseball team owned by Ryan, his son
Reid Ryan and Houston businessman
Don Sanders.
■ “The doctors told us he has the heart
of a 30-year-old,” Reid Ryan said. “We
feel confident that he is going to recover
Hilly.”
■ J.J. Gottsch, director of public rela
tions for the minor league team, said
“thousands” of people had called,
mailed letters or sent emails wishing
Ryan well.
Ryan has asked people to make con
tributions to the Nolan Ryan Foundation
in Alvin rather than send flowers. “There
is just not enough room in the hospital,”
Gottsch said. A telephone call to the
foundation was not immediately returned
Monday.
Austin surgeon Mark Felger, who
performed the two-hour operation to by
pass an arterial blockage, was scheduled
to appear with Reid Ryan at a news con
ference Monday evening.
Ryan reported chest pains and breath
ing trouble Sunday morning while he
and his wife
strolled
through the
Dell Diamond,
the Express’
new $2.5-mil
lion stadium.
She drove
him to the
Round Rock
Medical Cen
ter. Doctors
there referred
Ryan to the
Austin Heart
Hospital, where the surgery was per-
formed at 3 p.m.
Blood tests and an electrocardiogram
showed Ryan did not have a heart attack,
officials said. The surgery was required
to bypass a blocked artery leading to the
former pitcher’s heart, doctors said.
Ryan was a first-ballot Hall of Famer
in January 1999. He holds or shares 48
major league, American League or Na
tional League records.
He is baseball’s career leader in
strikeouts with 5,714 and no-hitters with
seven. Ryan is tied for 11 th with Don
Sutton for career victories with 324.
Ryan's played 27 seasons in the ma
jors, more than any other player. He
played with the New York Mets, Cali
fornia Angels, Houston Astros and Texas
Rangers before retiring in 1993.
Ags hit road for conference games
A&M softball team heads to Waco, Austin to take on Bears, Longhorns
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A&M senior first baseman.Angie Long stretches to catch the ball against the University of Missouri Tigers
April 15 at the Aggie Softball Complex.
After having its six-game winning
streak snapped on Saturday, the Texas
A&M softball team heads to Waco to take
on the Baylor University Bears in a dou
bleheader beginning at 5 p.m.
The games were originally scheduled
for April 12, but were rained out.
Wednesday, the Aggies travel to
Austin to take on the University of Texas
at 6 p.m. at Red and Charlie McCombs
Field. The game will be televised on Col
lege Sports Southwest.
The Aggies remain in fourth place in
the Big 12 Conference with a 5-6 record
and a 26-16 record overall.
A&M dropped two games to the Uni
versity of Nebraska in a doubleheader at
the Aggie Softball Complex Saturday,
both by the score of 2-0.
Husker pitchers Leigh Ann Walker
and Jenny Voss spoiled Senior Day by
pitching complete game shutouts against
the Aggies.
Baylor currently sits in last place in
the conference and holds a 2-10 league
record. A&M defeated Baylor last year,
9-3, in the first round of the Big 12
tournament.
The Bears dropped two games over
the weekend to conference leader and
Big 12 defending champion. University
of Oklahoma. Baylor lost 6-0 Saturday,
and 8-1 Sunday.
“Baylor has two really good hitters who
are perfonning well for them in confer
ence,” said A&M softball coach Jo Evans.
“They pretty much rely on those two play
ers to make big plays offensively.”
Evans said the Aggies have always
had problems when playing Baylor.
“They always get really pumped up
when they play us,” she said. “We know
we can’t take them lightly, even though
they’ve only won two conference games.”
The Longhorns are in third place with
a 11 -3 conference record. The last time
A&M and UT met was on March 29,
when the Longhorns pounded the Aggies
8-0 in College Station.
“That loss is fresh on our minds,”
Evans said. “We did not play up to our
potential the last time we played them.
To be successful, we need to maintain
our focus on the game, and not get
caught up in the rivalry.”
UT swept No. 22 Oklahoma State Uni
versity over the weekend, 3-2 and 9-1, ex
tending its winning streak to six games.
“We’re going to approach the Texas
game like every other game,” Evans
said. “We know that they are good, so
we’ve really got to be focused and
ready to play.
“It’s going to be tough playing in
Austin, and we’ve got to be physically
and mentally prepared.”
Evans said the two losses to Nebras- |
ka over the weekend have not shaken the *
Aggies’ confidence.
“Nebraska pitched well and we strug- j
gled a bit,” she said. “But we’re re- ■
grouping and we’ve got to take one game
at a time.”
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