Texas Rangers’ president takes aim at pitchers

For the 15 years between retiring as the world’s greatest living pitcher and taking on the task of reforming the world’s worst living pitching staff, Nolan Ryan was – and is – a cattle rancher.

“I wouldn’t ask anybody to do anything I wouldn’t be willing to do,” Ryan says. “I look at the Rangers’ pitching the same way.”

That approach helps explain why Ryan has become perhaps the first sitting president in Rangers history to visit the Instructional League.

Still living when Nolan Ryan retired: Bert Blyleven, Steve Carlton, Dennis Eckersley, Bob Feller, Bob Gibson, Ferguson Jenkins, Hal Newhouser, Phil Niekro, Jim Palmer, Gaylord Perry, Robin Roberts, and Tom Seaver.  Still, it’s a pretty good article.