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Most Unhittable record holder. And, the infamous headlock. Striking men out with a busted lip.

I Coached Tommy Greene (Phillies) Donnell Nixon (Giants) and played with Otis Nixon (Braves) and all 3 said between him and Randy Johnson there was almost no touching there pitches when they had it going on that day....

Complete and total side note.....

I was in high school and a bunch of buddies and I went to an Oakland A's series in Oakland.

Otis Nixon was fresh off a bunch of cocaine charges, I mean, like his first game back after some suspension, if I recall. We had seats right behind home plate, for all 3 games of the short home series.

Every time he came up to bat, the entire lower infield went, "Kiiii-Looo" "Kiiii-Looo" (as in "kilo of cocaine")

I think he went 1-13 in the series. And the azzhat A's fans loved it.

I’m one of them Azz hats!

No kidding. I got to ask Pudge Rodriguez about that incident. As you know Pudge was catching that game. Pudge is a great guy and I was needling him about not helping Nolan out. He says " I wasn't really paying much attention to Ventura because he hesitated so long in running out there, i was sort of looking off in another direction. When I noticed he was charging the mound he was already way out there, then I started hearing what sounded like Nolan beating the hell out of a watermelon. It was Ventura's face". I laughed my butt off hearing him tell it.

Awesome....

Where did you coach them at?

May 1, 1991 Nolan Ryan threw his seventh no hitter, tipped his hat, was congratulated by his teammates, and was a humble gentleman.

The same day Ricky Henderson broke the stolen base record and promptly declared himself the “greatest of all time”

To their credit ESPN gave Nolan more coverage.

At least that is the way I remember it.

Henderson was Ryan’s 5000th strikeout.

Randy Johnson vs. John Kruk is one of my favorite moments in sports. Kruk: "All I wanted to do is make contact, and after the first pitch all I wanted to do was live."

Remember that one too...

The Big Unit was an animal..

American Legion and at Whiteville high school. Otis played at West Columbus high School and American legion with me. He went to Louisburg Jr college and I went to Appalachain State. He signed after soph season and spent I believe 11 years with yankees before trade to brave. Yes he had and still has his problems,

Freaking great

That clip with Randy Johnson is one of my favorites. It's funny watching everybody in the dugouts reactions

He's been my favorite player since I was a kid. I shared a hunting camp last year with one of his lifelong friends, who shared some stories. He was the real deal. He pitched in the era of pitchers trying to pitch as long as possible every few days. In his last game, he was 46 and tore a ligament in his arm. His elbow was toast from the tear and wasn't working. He threw one more pitch to feel it out that was clocked at 98mph. I expect the vast majority of pitchers in the MLB today can't touch 98. Nobody will ever surpass his accomplishments because pitch counts are watched so closely now. He could be wild as hell too and threw allot of wild pitches. Not a good thing but 100+mph wild pitches tend to shake up batters.

And coming from some where out of right field side of second baseman didn't help either.

LMAO!!

We had the sports page clip of Nolan with Ventura in a headlock on the wall in my college apartment the entire time. And my freshman year was the best 2 years of my life!

Pudge was a good'un.

Classic! Reminds me of when Larry Walker flipped his helmet and "switch hit" against RJ in the all-star game!

Classic!

Another baseball fact:

My mother was 9 months pregnant with me, 45 years ago, this very day.

Her and my dad were at the Dodgers game, she had a Dodger dog. It put her into labor, and I was born tomorrow, 45 years ago at about 1 AM.

[bleep] the Dodgers and their crappy azz dogs for tearing me out of my mother's warm womb.

GO ROCKIES!

Look up the stats for Greg Maddux. Talk about impressive!! One that really stands out is this one. He faced 20,421 batters in his career and only 310 saw a 3-0 count!!