Garner's Modern American Usage (2009) notes that phrases like obviate the necessity or obviate the need are sometimes considered redundant, but these phrases are not redundancies, for the true sense of obviate the necessity is 'to prevent the necessity (from arising),' hence to make unnecessary..
At the Redskins game against the New York Giants on November 30, 2008, Clinton Portis ran down the field with a flag in the team's colors with the number 21 on it to honor the anniversary of Sean Taylor's death.
How much are Nolan Ryan baseball cards worth? In 1974, Ryan earned a place in the Guinness Book of World Records for fastest pitch recorded when he threw a 100.9 mph fastball against the Detroit Tigers. The record currently belongs to Aroldis Chapman who threw a 105.1 mph pitch in 2010 against the San Diego Padres. Nolan Ryan currently holds the Major League Baseball records for most career strikeouts (5,714), most career no-hitters (7) and holds the single-season strikeout record with 383 in 1973.