Nolan

“Brown delivers a cinematic biography… [his] smart writing and reverent tone result in a rewarding and memorable tribute to a pitcher whose durability feels increasingly rare in the modern game.”

“I’ll be as direct as a Nolan Ryan bow-tie fastball: you’ll never read a sports biography better than this. Tim Brown’s lively prose and dogged reporting crackle off every page. “Nolan” is a Texas-sized triumph worthy of the man himself.”

“Tim Brown has done a terrific job telling the story of one of the most iconic pitchers the game has ever known. I loved it.”

“Tim Brown has written the definitive biography of Nolan Ryan, but calling it a biography is selling it short. This is the story of a man who is everything Texans imagine themselves to be, and a workhorse of a pitcher we will never see the likes of again. Baseball has changed dramatically since Ryan retired in 1993. The diminishment of the starting pitcher makes him an even more singular figure in the game’s history.”

“This is more than the definitive story of Nolan Ryan, or the greatest right arm in the history of baseball. Nolan recalls another America, infused with a brand of taciturn masculine virtue, where modesty and ferocity weren’t mutually exclusive. For all Ryan’s strikeouts and the no hitters – records that’ll never be broken – this is a story of endurance, of a man’s fidelity to his greatest gifts (arm and family), and because of it, managed to play as hard as he could for as long as he could. So where have you gone, Nolan Ryan? And what did it all mean? Tim Brown knows. There’s not a writer more deeply in touch with the soul of the game.”

"A fittingly admiring look at the life of one of baseball's greatest."