Fish Stripes looks at the latest news on a possible move by the Marlins to San Antonio and makes a snide comment about Nolan Ryan. After quoting Ryan on the viability of a team in the Texas city Craig writes:

With all due respect to Mr. Ryan, I don’t remember reading his work in the field of economics in the AER or the QJE. But maybe I missed a few issues of the journals.

Nolan Ryan is a banker.

Following his retirement, Nolan was able to further pursue his business ventures. He is the majority owner and Chairman of the Board of The Express Bank in Alvin and Danbury, Texas, and owns Nolan Ryan’s Waterfront Restaurant and Bass Inn near Three Rivers, Texas. Nolan also owns and operates several cattle ranches in South Texas. In May of 1998, he joined his son Reid and a group of investors in bringing a professional baseball franchise to Central Texas by purchasing the Jackson (Miss.) Generals, a Houston Astros Double-A affiliate, and moved the team to Round Rock, Texas.

So maybe he doesn’t have a degree from Harvard Business School, but I bet Nolan knows something about demographics and economics, or at least has some people working for him who can inform him on the subject.
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