how many years did nolan ryan play basebal for?Also who played the most years in baseball history?
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quoting from someone:\nThe longest playing career is Nolan Ryan, with 27 seasons (1966, 1968-93); Cap Anson (1871-1897) is tied with him if you count the National Association (1871-75) as a major league.\n\nFor current players, the longest tenure is that of Julio Franco with 21 years to date (1982-97, 1999, 2001-05).
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Monday, June 16\n \nAn MVP's encore: Playing in 500 straight games\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\nESPN.com news services\n\n \nOakland Athletics shortstop Miguel Tejada, who on Sunday played in his 499th consecutive game, the longest active streak in baseball, is expected to suit up for No. 500 on Tuesday against the visiting Texas Rangers.\n\n \nNEW YORK -- Hideki Matsui tried for a sliding catch, landed hard on his left wrist and grimaced.\n\nHis consecutive games streak was over at 518 -- and perhaps his season, too.\n\n\nSecond:\n\nThe closest current active streak is 361 by Texas Rangers first baseman and former Mount St. Joseph star Mark Teixeira. \n\nYou didn't specify that you wanted the longest and the second longest, therefore the question was answered as asked.
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Mark McGuire and Sammy Sosa both did it in 1998-99. Actually, the hit more that 60 home runs in those years
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It was Nolan Ryan.  It happened on June 19, 1978 against Los Angeles Dodgers when he was with the Houston Astros.
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Mark Wohlers has thrown 103 in Spring Training,  Nolan Ryan does have the official record by Guiness Book.  But that was clocked by Guiness.  They are not at all games.
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Cal Ripken Sr\n\nCal RIpken Jr and his brother Billy Ripken both played for their father 1987-1988\n\nBret Boone was the first third generation baseball player.  The Boones were also a part of the only infield ever composed of two sets of brothers in '98 for the Reds: first baseman Stephen Larkin, second baseman Bret Boone, shortstop Barry Larkin, and third baseman Aaron Boone.  \n\nHowever, Brett and Aaron never played together while Bob was managing.  Brett played with the Reds from 94-98.  Aaron played with the Reds from 97-03.  Bob managed the Reds from 01-03.
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Nolan Ryan is of course up there, but i think Greg Maddux has done more with Less i mean its easy to pitch with a 99 mph fast ball, try pitching with an 89 mph one , but i do agree it has to be Nolan Ryan
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Yankee fan here.\n\n#27 in 2006!
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May 18, 2004 - Randy Johnson, Arizona Diamondbacks 2 Atlanta Braves 0 \n\nJune 11, 2003 - Roy Oswalt (1 inn.), Peter Munro (2 2/3 inn.), Kirk Saarloos (1 1/3 inn.), Brad Lidge (2 inn.), Octavio Dotel (1 inn.) and Billy Wagner (1 inn.), Houston Astros 8 New York Yankees 0 \n\nApril 27, 2003 - Kevin Millwood, Philadelphia Phillies 1 San Francisco Giants 0 \n\nApril 27, 2002 - Derek Lowe, Boston Red Sox 10 Tampa Bay Devil Rays 0 \n\nSeptember 3, 2001 - Bud Smith, St. Louis Cardinals 4 San Diego Padres 0 \n\nMay 12, 2001 - A.J. Burnett, Florida Marlins 3 San Diego Padres 0 \n\nApril 4, 2001 - Hideo Nomo, Boston Red Sox 3 Baltimore Orioles 0 \n\nSeptember 11, 1999 - Eric Milton, Minnesota Twins 7 Anaheim Angels 0\n\nJuly 18, 1999 - David Cone, New York Yankees 6 Montreal Expos 0 \n\nJune 25, 1999 - Jose Jimenez, St. Louis Cardinals 1 Arizona Diamondbacks 0
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The longest professional baseball game ever played was a 33-inning minor league baseball affair between the Rochester Red Wings and the Pawtucket Red Sox that took place on April 18, 1981, at McCoy Stadium in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. The two teams played deep into the frigid night with no end in sight. The game began just after 8:00 PM local time and continued until 4:07 AM the next morning, when it was paused after 32 innings. (The umpire's rule book was missing the revision that placed a curfew on game length.) On June 23, 65 days later, play resumed. The game was decided after just 18 more minutes as Pawtucket's Dave Koza singled off of Rochester's Cliff Speck to drive in Marty Barrett as the winning run, giving the PawSox a 3-2 victory. The official length of the game is listed as 8:25, also a record.\n\nIn 1996, Steven Krasner, a sports writer who covers baseball for the Providence Journal, published a children's book about the historic game called The Longest Game.\n\nESPN's SportsCenter did a piece about the game on July 25, 2005 during its 50 States in 50 Days segment for Rhode Island.
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Apparently this has been done quite a few times.  See the link.  Some of the people who did it are quite famous, like Willie Mays, Roberto Clemente, Mickey Cochrane and Lou Gehrig.  There are 23 Hall-of-Famers on the list.  Others are quite obscure.  The most unusual name I saw at first glance was Yankee pitcher Mel Stottlemyre (July 20, 1965).  Randy Winn is the most recent player to do it.\n\nHonus Wagner did it five times.  Shoeless Joe Jackson did it three times.  Jimmy Sheckard did it on consecutive days in 1901.  Note that most instances were in the "dead-ball" era, when batters had to do a lot more running as balls that would go over the fence after 1930 stayed in play before then.  (That's when most of the records concerning triples were set, too.)  Also many ballparks had huge outfields, such as the Polo Grounds, the original Yankee Stadium, Forbes Field and the National League park in Philadelphia.  Today centerfield distances of 450 feet or more simply do not exist in MLB.\n\nAnother surprise is that so many catchers are on the list, including Cochrane, Tim McCarver, Wes Westrum and Dan Wilson, the latter recently retired from the Seattle Mariners.
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When people remember Nolan Ryan they remember all the strike outs and the 7 no hitters. What people forget to remember was he was a very wild pitcher, whose pitches were all over the place.\n\nNot only does Ryan hold the all time SO record of 5714, but he also holds the all time record for BB at 2795. He is the only modern day pitcher to walk over 200 batters in a season more than once(202 and 204). He lead all of baseball in BB's 8 times, finishing second 3 times, third 2 times and so on to the total of 19 top 10 finishes.\n\nThen there is the wild pitches. He holds the career record there as well with 277. Leading all of baseball 6 times in that department, finishing second 4 times, all the way down to 14 top 10 finishes.\n\nHe also plunked 159 batters over the course of his career, which was good for 8th all time when he retired(9th now). He had 13 top ten finishes in that category(7 top 5).\n\nRyan quite possibly was the most intimidating pitcher of all time. But that does not make him the best pitcher of all time.
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1) 5714\n2) 324\n3) 7\n4) 0\n5) 0\n6) 100.9\n7) 27\n8) 2\n9) 54\n10) Lynn Nolan Ryan, Jr.
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There have been 10 managers in the last fifty years that were still active players in their debut year as major-league managers:\n\nPete Rose 1984-1986\nDon Kessinger 1979\nJoe Torre 1977\nFrank Robinson 1975-1976 \nYogi Berra 1964-1965\nGil Hodges 1963\nEl Tappe 1961-1962 \nHank Bauer 1961\nSolly Hemus 1959\nHarry Walker 1955\n\nPrevious to the 1955 season there were numerous Player/Managers. To many to list in fact.\nHeres a list of the numbers by decade:\n1870s...45 \n1880s...42 \n1890s...43 \n1900s...31 \n1910s...35 \n1920s...17 \n1930s...13 \n1940s...9 \n1950s...8 \n1960s...4 \n1970s...4 \n1980s...1
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Julio Franco - although he is not the oldest to ever play, he is the oldest currently.  The source listed below shows the oldest to ever play.  \n\nAt the age of 47, Franco also became the oldest player to ever homer, eclipsing the old record of Jack Quinn, who was 46 years, 357 days old when he homered on June 27, 1930.
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No.\nNolan "The Express"  Ryan has been retired since 1993.\nHis career is as follows...\n1966, 1968-1971: Mets\n1972-1979: Angels\n1980-1988: Astros\n1989-1993: Rangers
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Ryan pitched 7 no-hitters and had over 5,700 strikeouts (about 1,200 K's ahead of the # 2 man, Roger Clemens).\n\nThese are both major league records. (I think his total was 5,714, but I"m not positive... you can look that up at baseball-reference.com)