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Ryan fans Rickey for his 5,000th career K



8/22/89: Nolan Ryan strikes out Rickey Henderson for his 5,000th career strikeout

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21 Comments

  1. Absolutely on performance enhancers at stages in his 40's. But he gets in the hall of fame no problem. Such a sham

  2. Still the only pitcher to ever reach that mark. And he probably will be for a very long time.

  3. I will always remember this day. I drove for a charter bus company then and had a load of people that I took to Pala Duro Canyon at Canyon, Texas to see the play
    "Oklahoma". Someone had a radio with them out in the concession area and we listened to it while the play was going on.

  4. He’s the only man to reach 5,000 strikeouts & he still had almost another 1,000 left in him. Nolan wasn’t mortal.

  5. I was there! WAY out in the right-centerfield bleachers and, even there, you could hear that catcher's mitt pop all night.

  6. wow, amazing……a record that will never be broken just like Dimaggio's 56-game hit streak. What blows me away was the fact that Nolan maintain that high velocity well into his 40's……….. just a phenom and in my opinion, the greatest pitcher of all time.

  7. Hitters spend …well used to spend more time adjusting themselves in between pitches than Ryan did celebrated breaking insane records.

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