The Masculine Toughness of Nolan Ryan

Hard Men Podcast

Eric Conn

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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We live in soft, comfortable world today in the West. At least most of us do. In this episode, we're going to talk about the hard virtues of physical courage and toughness—something embodied in one of the greatest MLB pitchers of all time, Nolan Ryan. They called him Big Tex. The Nolan Express. He pitched a record-setting 7 no hitters. In his early days, he threw a blistering 108-MPH fastball. In this episode, we'll explore the manly toughness of Nolan Ryan.Sign up for the New Christendo...

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0:00.0	This episode of the Hard Men Podcast is brought to you by Joe Garrison and
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0:15.0	In the third inning of a game between the Texas Rangers and the Chicago White Sox,
0:22.0	on August 4, 1993, Texas Rangers in the Chicago White Sox.
0:22.5	On August 4, 1993, Robin Ventura stepped to the plate for the Sox.
0:28.2	The two teams had developed a fierce enough rivalry that Chicago players decided collectively before the game that whoever got plunked first by a pitch was going to charge the mound.
0:38.0	If they didn't, the team would find them $500.
0:42.0	The problem was, the man on the mound had a reputation for throwing
0:45.7	inside to intimidate hitters. He wasn't just any pitcher either and he threw
0:51.1	100 mile an hour heat.
0:53.0	In fact, he had hit 158 batters during his illustrious career.
0:58.0	At the plate, Ventura, a left-handed hitter,
1:01.0	recoiled inward as a fastball tracked and encroached into his personal space.
1:05.2	The pitch struck the 26-year-old Ventura Square in the back. For a moment he hesitated.
1:12.2	Maybe he was thinking about the $500. For a moment he hesitated.
1:13.0	Maybe he was thinking about the $500 he would owe his teammates.
1:16.0	Maybe he was thinking twice about the imposing Texan standing,
1:20.0	just 60 feet away.
1:22.0	It wasn't just that he was about to charge the mound in a
1:25.3	Major League Baseball game. It was the fact that he was about to throw hands with a
1:29.4	Paul Bunyan sized legend of the baseball diamond. The man that everyone called Big Tex. But
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