State Highway 288, which you can take from outside of Alvin to Houston, is known as the Nolan Ryan Expressway, there’s a Nolan Ryan Junior High School in Pearland, his number is retired by both ...

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 ...