When Red Murff first saw a baseball shoot out of the right hand of a 145-pound Alvin High School junior named Nolan Ryan, he knew he’d witnessed something special.  “The first pitch he threw was the ...

The aging right-handed starting pitcher uses the unmatched durability of his childhood hero, Nolan Ryan, as inspiration during his own twilight years. The all-time strikeouts leader (5,714 ...