Nolan Ryan threw three pitches: A fastball, a curveball, and later in his career, a change-up
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Nolan Ryan had career regular season stats of 5386 innings pitched and 5714 strikeouts for an average of 1.06 strikeouts per inning.
Nolan Ryan pitched 5,386 innings in his 27 year career. This places him at number 5 all time in between Gaylord Perry (5,350) and Phil Niekro (5,404).
There are innumerable URLs stating that his ball was measured with a radar gun at that speed in 1974, but I could not find any that explained exactly how accurate the measurement was. There's no question but that Ryan could throw a ball fast, but the question remains on exactly how fast.
Nolan Ryan's Fastest Fastball was 106.07 Miles per hour. He trained everyday and threw his arm out more than a dozen times.
I'm guessing between 95 & 105 miles per hour
90-100 mph
Vida Blue could throw pretty fast since his Fastballs would clock around 100 mph.