Many men in their middle years could identify with how this 44-year-old felt before dragging himself off to work. A pounding headache, an aching back, sharp pains in his heel, all added up to the poignant self-diagnosis: "I feel old today."
Who could blame Nolan Ryan for feeling the cold chill of his own mortality as he braced himself to start his 711th game in the majors? Sure, Ryan bestrode the baseball record book like a colossus, with more strikeouts and more no-hitters than any pitcher in history. But decay is an inevitable stage in the human condition. And Ryan was...
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