And Robin Ventura once decided to charge the mound when Big Tex, Nolan Ryan, brushed him back.
Ryan held his neck with one hand and beat him over the head with the other.
Ryan was 42 at the time; Ventura was in his late twenties.
It was a wonderful thing to watch.
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Nolan Ryan is the bomb. I remember that well. That man kicked his A$$.