Nolan Ryan breaks Walter Johnson’s major league record for career strikeouts

On April 27 , 1983 Nolan Ryan breaks Walter Johnson’s major league record for career strikeouts, fanning Montreal’s Brad Mills for his 3,509th victim. Ironically it was a curveball, not Ryan’s famed fastball, that claims Mills. Ryan accomplishes the feat in 2,500 less innings than Johnson needed to set it. Nolan tips his cap to the applauding Canadian fans, then quickly resumes on his way to a 4-2 victory.

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