Nolan Ryan Nolan Ryan Lynn Nolan Ryan Jr. (born January 31, 1947), nicknamed The Ryan Express, is a former Major League Baseball (MLB) pitcher and a previous chief executive officer (CEO) of the Texas Rangers. He is currently an executive adviser to the owner of the Houston Astros. Over a record 27-year baseball career that spanned four decades: 1966, 19681993, Ryan pitched for the New York Mets, California Angels, Houston Astros, and Texas Rangers. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1999. Ryan, a hard-throwing, right-handed pitcher, threw pitches that were regularly clocked above 100 miles per hour (161
Nothin' Matters and What If It Did Nothin' Matters and What If It Did Nothin' Matters and What If It Did is John Mellencamp's fourth studio album, under his pseudonym of John Cougar. It includes the moderate hits "Ain't Even Done with the Night," which reached #17 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 as the album's second single, and "This Time," which peaked at #27 as the album's lead single. "The singles were stupid little pop songs," Mellencamp told "Record Magazine" in 1983. "I take no credit for that record. It wasn't like the title was made up – it wasn't supposed to be punky or cocky like