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30 years ago today, Nolan Ryan taught Robin Ventura you don't mess with Texas!
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Question for your followers, after their retirement, who was the best looking mature former MLB pitcher: Don Drysdale, Tom Seaver or Nolan Ryan? If you had a chance what would you do with/to your favorite pitcher. Mine would be Tom Seaver. He had big strong legs and ass. I would love to find him laying face down on my bed!
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Rickey Hill was raised in poverty in the area of Fort Worth, Texas. He was born with a degenerative spinal disease and doctors had doubts as to whether he would ever walk normally.
Rickey’s dream of becoming a professional baseball player began when he was a four-year-old with leg braces locked in place. His brother pitched fastballs with rocks and he would sometimes spend "16 hours a day" hitting them with a stick along the railroad tracks, striking as many as 2,000 rocks.
Baseball scout, Red Murff is known for discovering and signing Hall of Fame pitcher Nolan Ryan. He called Hill "the best pure hitting prospect he's ever seen." Hill and Red Murff became friends and remained close until Murff's passing in 2008. Hill even spoke at his funeral.
In 1975, at the age of 19, Hill was signed by the Montreal Expos but was released from the team. He played four seasons in the minors before it became too much on his body.
During his final year in the Minors, Hill racked up 64 hits and 15 homers across 63 games for Grays Harbor. Across his four seasons in the Minor Leagues (1975 Lethbridge Expos, 1976 Rio Grande Valley WhiteWings, 1977 Texas City and 1978 Grays Harbor) Hill recorded 205 hits and 26 home runs in 201 games with a .298 batting average.
Born Rickey Glen Hill on August 15, 1956 in Fort Worth, Texas. Through childhood experiences, his father, a Baptist preacher, along with his mother, shaped his character of faith, determination and resilience.
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Nolan Ryan is the Angels franchise leader in Ks (2,416)
Nolan Ryan is the Astros franchise leader in Ks (1,866)
Nolan Ryan is 5th all-time in Ks for the Rangers (939)
Fucking Legend
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Emily is really bad at appreciating Nolan.
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My brother had this poster in his room. I thought it was the coolest thing ever. I don't think I was wrong.
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Nolan Ryan after taking a Bo Jackson line drive to the face in 1990. Nolan finished the inning, got stitched up, and returned to the game in his bloody jersey to get another 17 outs.
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Happy anniversary to one of baseball’s greatest moments. On August 4, 1993, Robin Ventura charged the mound only to be put in a headlock and wailed on by the much older Texas Ranger pitcher, Nolan Ryan.
“Don’t you trouble my old man hands!”
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