Nolan Ryan States Mint produced a $1 commemorative coin honoring Olympic baseball depicting a pitcher in a USA Baseball uniform, but in a pose nearly identical to Ryan's photo on his 1991 Fleer baseball card. The numismatic community subsequently referred to the coin as the "Nolan Ryan dollar." In 1995 the Texas State Legislature declared State Highway 288, which passes near Alvin, as the Nolan Ryan Expressway. The Alvin Independent School District opened Nolan Ryan Junior High School, located at 11500 Shadow Creek Parkway (FM 2234) in Pearland, Texas, just a few hundred yards away from the Nolan Ryan Expressway. Ryan married
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