... took him out. Later that season he was traded to the Angels. After the game Richard Reeves went down into the locker room to interview the players. He noticed Nolan Ryan was apart from the others, looking into a mirror, obviously having difficulty tying his ... his eyes. He was crying. He couldn't see to tie his tie. Reeves remembered that incident on the occasion of celebrating Nolan Ryan as one of the immortals of baseball. He remembered that this legendary man, Nolan Ryan, began thinking he had failed. But ...
... career. Now the game was over. The reporters flooded the Texas Rangers’ clubhouse to interview the hero of the hour. They found him in the middle of the clubhouse riding his stationary bicycle. He explained to them: “You don’t deviate from your routine.” People, like Nolan Ryan, who take discipline seriously, do not have the sense of being enslaved but rather they have the sense of being liberated. The underlying purpose of discipline is to set us free. Water that is undisciplined, free to wander ...
... Nolan Ryan was on the mound. The second pitch of the game was so fast that the umpire didn’t know where it was until he heard the “POP!” of the catcher’s mitt. He froze. Finally he uttered a faint call: “Strike.” The batter stepped out of the box, went over to the umpire, and patted him on the shoulder. “Don’t feel bad, sir,” said the batter. “I didn’t ... to accomplish. TIMES OF TRANSITION ARE ALWAYS DIFFICULT, AREN’T THEY? Richard N. Foster in his book, Innovation, tells about ...
