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
Gabardini G.9 Victor Emmanuel III (1869-1947), King of Italy (1900-1946), visited Cameri airfield, where he observed a demonstration of the G.9"bis". Flown by Lodovico Zanibelli, the G.9"bis" achieved a maximum speed of 250 kilometers per hour (155 miles per hour) during the demonstration. However, the "Regia Aeronautica" was no more interested in the G.9"bis" version of the aircraft than it had been in the G.9 version, and no production order resulted. Gabardini G.9 The Gabardini G.9 was an Italian single-seat biplane fighter prototype produced by Gabardini in 1923. Gabardini designed the G.9 in parallel with its work on its first fighter design,