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Title: Angels' ace, Nolan Ryan
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Roark, James
Date Created and/or Issued: 1973
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Used in the Exhibit: Play by Play - A Century of L.A. Sports Photography, 1889-1989
With his strike-out of Minnesota Twins' Rich Reese, Angels' ace Nolan Ryan established Major League Baseball's single-season strikeout record with 383 Ks, breaking Sandy Koufax's old mark of 382 (set in 1965). The 1973 season would prove to be one of Ryan's finest: along with the strikeout record, he won 21 games and threw the first two of his seven career no-hitters. In 1980, when Ryan left the Angels to sign baseball's first million-dollar-per-year contract with the Houston Astros, general manager Buzzie Bavasi said he could replace Ryan with "two 8-7 pitchers." As Ryan later said: "I wonder if Buzzie ever found those two pitchers." Photo dated: September 9, 1973.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00048998
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box Baseball.
CARL0000053081
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/17464
Subject: Ryan, Nolan,--1947-
California Angels (Baseball team)
Baseball
Baseball players
Pitchers (Baseball)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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