12" Nolan Ryan

[sculpey]

First of all, a little history about this great pitcher:

*Top 3 percentage vote Hall of Famers: #1-Tom Seaver (1992-425 of 430 votes for 98.84%; #2-Nolan Ryan (1999-491 of 497 votes for 98.79%; #3-Ty Cobb (1936-222 of 226 votes for 98.23%).

*Nolan Ryan is the only player in Major League Baseball history to have his uniform retired by three different teams, the Angels, Astros, Rangers.

*Nolan Ryan compiled 53 MLB records during a career that lasted 27 seasons; threw 5,714 strikeouts, 7 no-hitters, and won 324 games.

*Nolan Ryan holds the Guinness Book of World Records for throwing the fastest baseball pitched at 100.9 miles per hour. Rockwell scientists recorded it on August 20, 1974 against Bee Bee Richard of the Chicago White Sox on a 3-2 high fastball in the 9th inning. The ball crossed home plate in 0.38 seconds.

Now then....... what a great figure. I'd been excited about getting this ever since I saw a 2-up at the last Toy Fair that McF attended. While I don't remember if it's the same sculpt, who cares........ it's close enough. Every detail on this is a close to perfect as you can get. From the dirt on his cleats to the seam on the baseball.


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I saw the Sosa and both Gretzkys today too and all of them looked really well done.

[Peter Peeker]

"what's that on the bottom of my shoe?" [img]wink.gif[/img]

cool grab! [img]graemlins/thumbs_up.gif[/img]

[Drau]

If he'd bend over just a bit farther ... he'd make a dog jealous. [img]wink.gif[/img]

[skullpit]

Not a sports collector but that's a damn good figure.

[classic]

the figure itself is good i just wish they would have chose a different uniform. the all white just makes it boring to me.

[sculpey]

I sort of agree, Classic. I really wish there had been a Houston uniform. Especially since I was never able to find the regular fig of that version.

[bonedust]

that is a must have!