Ryan travels to New Mexico to meet with a young SDI researcher, Major Alan Gregory, whom he brings to Washington, D. C. to brief the president.

At the beginning of the 2007 Major League Baseball season, Ryan Freel took over center field for the Reds, and Griffey Jr. was moved to right field.

Lynn Nolan Ryan, Jr. ( born on January 31, 1947 ), nicknamed " The Ryan Express ", is a former Major League Baseball pitcher.

Ryan is one of only 29 players in baseball history to have appeared in Major League baseball games in four decades.

In 1965, after graduating from Alvin High School, Ryan was drafted by the New York Mets in the 12th round of the 1965 Major League Baseball Draft.

On July 9, 1972, Ryan struck out three batters on nine pitches in the second inning of a 3 – 0 win over the Boston Red Sox ; he became the seventh American League pitcher to accomplish the nine-pitch / three-strikeout half-inning, and the first ( and currently only ) pitcher in Major League history to accomplish the feat in both leagues.

( Ryan would be joined in this category by Darren Oliver, who made his Major League debut as Ryan's teammate in September 1993.

Ryan threw a record seven no-hitters during his Major League career, three more than any other pitcher.

Ryan is a closer in Major League Baseball for the Toronto Blue Jays of the American League.

* Ryan Thompson, Major League Baseball player

* Mike Ryan, Major League Baseball player

* Rob Ryan, Major League Baseball player

* Ryan Vogelsong played baseball for Kutztown University, moved on to Major League Baseball and is now playing for the San Francisco Giants

* Michael Ryan, a Major League Baseball player

* Nolan Ryan, former Major League Baseball pitcher, grew up in Alvin, Texas.

In 1965, after graduating from Alvin High School, one of Major League Baseball's Hall of Famer pitchers, Nolan Ryan, signed a professional baseball contract with the New York Mets, and was assigned to a minor league team in the Appalachian League called the Marion Mets ( 1965 – 1976 ) in Marion, Virginia.

Ryan Ripken was drafted by the Baltimore Orioles in the 20th round of Major League Baseball's 2012 amateur draft and extends the Ripken legacy in the Orioles organization to a third generation.

Alerted by the commotion, he jumped out of bed and, ignoring the pleas of the arresting officers Captain William Bellingham Swan ( later assistant town Major of Dublin ) and Captain Daniel Frederick Ryan to surrender peacefully, FitzGerald stabbed Swan and mortally wounded Ryan with a dagger in a desperate attempt to escape.

Johnson led the league in strikeouts a Major League record 12 times – one more than current strikeout leader Nolan Ryan – including a record eight consecutive seasons.

Nolan Ryan is the modern-era leader in the category, throwing 277 wild pitches over his 27 years in Major League Baseball.

The Spartans are also contributing athletes to Major League Soccer, as Kevin Reiman, Doug DeMartin, Dave Hertel, Greg Janicki, Kenzo Webster, Rauwshan McKenzie, John Minagawa-Webster and Ryan McMahen have all played in Major League Soccer.

Among them are Major John Reisman ( Lee Marvin ), an OSS officer ; his commander, Regular Army Major General Worden ( Ernest Borgnine ), and his former commander Colonel Everett Dasher Breed ( Robert Ryan ).

In his absence, the rifle regiment was under the command of Major Thomas Posey, another able Virginian.

Johnston wanted Major, later Lt. Gen., Alexander P. Stewart to command the forts but President Davis appointed Brig.

Essex left Sir Philip Skippon, his Sergeant Major General of Foot, in command while he himself escaped to Plymouth in a fishing boat.

Despite a cease-fire order from the army HQ, over 100 rounds were fired directly into the fleeing crowds by troops under the command of Major Ted Loden.

Hardy handing over command of the Kenya Army to Brigadier Joseph Ndolo on 1 December 1966, British influence was underlined with the appointment of Major General Robert Penfold as Chief of General Staff, a new position as senior officer of the entire armed forces.

The Luftwaffe had formed its own special command ( Sonderkommando ) under Major Fritz Siebel to investigate the production of landing craft for Sea Lion.

Soviet infantrymen under the command of Major Anatole Vavilov stormed the installations at Peenemünde and found then " 75 percent wreckage ".

The Strategic Air Command ( SAC ) was both a Major Command ( MAJCOM ) of the United States Air Force and a " specified command " of the United States Department of Defense.

It is code-named Rainbow, and Clark is put in command of the unit with the simulated rank of Major General.

Immediately after the 1965 war, Major General Yahya Khan who had miserably commanded the 7th Division in Operation Grand Slam to utter disgust ,( since the change of command from a successfully advancing Maj. General Akhtar Hussain Malik had resulted in a shameful retreat from Akhnoor river bridge ) was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant General, appointed Deputy Army Commander in Chief and Commander in Chief designate in March 1966.

* February 11 – Fort Meigs: Leftwich is not successful, and when he leaves, Major Amos Stoddard assumes the command of the post.

It was declared ready for operations on January 1, 2000, and deployed to the Horn of Africa in November 2000 to form the core of the UN Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea ( UNMEE ) under the command of Royal Netherlands Marine Corps Major General Patrick Cammaert.

Newcastle replaced him in January 1756 with Lord Loudoun, with Major General James Abercrombie as his second in command.

When the Allies announced the invasion of North Africa, Major General Patton suddenly found himself under the command of his former subordinate, now one star his superior.

Major General Franklin L. " Buster " Hagenback was put in command of the operation.

Nevertheless he received a promotion to Major General of Volunteers and command of the V Corps being assembled in Tampa, Florida.

Shafter returned to command the Department of California where he oversaw the supplying of the expedition to the Philippines under Major General Wesley Merritt.

In the period between 27 November and 13 December 1950, 30, 000 United Nations ( UN ) troops ( nicknamed " The Chosin Few ") under the command of Major General Edward Almond were encircled by approximately 67, 000 Chinese troops under the command of Song Shi-Lun.

Sharon was given the rank of Major and chosen to command the company-sized unit, with Shlomo Baum as deputy in command.

The Governor of New South Wales, William Bligh, was deposed by the New South Wales Corps under the command of Major George Johnston, working closely with John Macarthur, on 26 January 1808, 20 years to the day after Arthur Phillip founded European settlement in Australia.

Major General William Jenkins Worth ( 1794 – 1849 ) was second in command to General Zachary Taylor at the opening of the Mexican – American War in 1846.

General William S. Harney assumed command of the Department of Texas and ordered Major Ripley A. Arnold to find a new fort site near the West Fork and Clear Fork.

One part of the troops came under command of a Spaniard in Russian service, Major General José de Ribas ( known in Russia as Osip Mikhailovich Deribas ), and the main street in Odessa today, Derybasivska Street, is named after him.