Nolan Ryan various positions besides pitcher. Ryan played baseball for Coach Jim Watson at Alvin High School for all of his high school career. Ryan held the school's single game strikeout record for 44 years, striking out 21 hitters in a 7-inning game. The record was eventually tied by Alvin High School pitchers Aaron Stewart and Josh Land in the same week in 2009. In 1963, at an Alvin High School game at Clear Creek High School in League City, Texas, Red Murff, a scout for the New York Mets, first noticed sophomore pitcher Ryan. Coach Watson recounted to Murff that some
Murder of Eamon Ryan when his family criticized Sinn Féin for giving an award to Hayes. In reply, "Hayes said he wanted to offer his deep sympathy and apologies to Eamon Ryan's family for what they had suffered." Murder of Eamon Ryan Eamon Ryan (1946/1947 – 7 August 1979) was an Irish civil servant and murder victim. He and his wife Bernadette had two children, Peter and Dorothy. Ryan had been studying for a Master's degree at Trinity College, Dublin. On 7 August 1979, he was in the Allied Irish Bank in Tramore, County Waterford, when it was raided by the IRA. Eamonn Nolan