Nolan Ryan

Cheap and close.

Those are the two criteria you use when you’re looking to buy land and you make only $7,000 a year. At least those were the two Nolan Ryan used back in the 1960s when he began buying ranchland in Gonzales County, Texas. To see the Hall of Fame pitcher talk about his experiences from nearly five decades of land buying.

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