Nolan Ryan Had a Softer Side. He Just Hid It (Very) Well.

The two celebrated their 55th wedding anniversary last month, though, after their second date in 1962, that milestone seemed as unlikely as Ryan’s eventual dominance after control problems had plagued his early career.

It was not exactly a romantic outing: He took her to the Colt Stadium to see Koufax pitch.

“He wouldn’t talk to me,” Ruth said. “He wouldn’t get up.”

“We were sitting behind the plate with a bird’s-eye view of Sandy Koufax,” Nolan explained.

Though she says she was initially irritated when the old pitcher and scout Red Murff warned her that one day she “was going to have to share Nolan with the world,” Murff’s prediction came true, and this film is that story. With a generational fastball (“sounded like bacon in a frying pan,” Roger Clemens says in the film), it was only a matter of time.

Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/21/sports/baseball/nolan-ryan-documentary.html