Nolan Ryan Will Be Inducted Into the Angels' Hall of Fame

Nolan Ryan Will Be Inducted Into the Angels’ Hall of Fame

By HELENE ELLIOTT

Jan. 16, 1992 12 AM PT

ANAHEIM —

Nolan Ryan, who pitched four of his seven no-hitters while with the Angels, will be inducted into the team’s Hall of Fame June 16 at Anaheim Stadium, before the Angels play the Texas Rangers.

Ryan, who will be 45 on Jan. 31, pitched for the Angels from 1972-79. He remains the club’s career leader in six categories, including victories (138), strikeouts (2,416) and innings pitched (2,182). He was 12-6 for the Rangers last season and ranked among the league leaders with a 2.91 earned-run average and 203 strikeouts. His 5,511 career strikeouts is the highest total in major league history.

Ryan will be the fifth member of the Angels’ Hall of Fame, following Bobby Grich, Jim Fregosi, Don Baylor and Rod Carew.

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Helene Elliott

Helene Elliott was with the Los Angeles Times’ Sports department from 1989 to 2024, first as a staff writer and then, starting in 2006, as a columnist. She became the first female journalist to be honored with a plaque in the Hall of Fame of a major professional sport as the 2005 winner of the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Elmer Ferguson Award, awarded to writers “who have brought honor to journalism and to hockey.” A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, she has covered 18 Olympics.

Nolan Ryan Will Be Inducted Into the Angels’ Hall of Fame

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