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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>HOUSTON (AP) -- Nolan Ryan was at Houston Astros pitching camp on Monday and said he was feeling well after a stint in the hospital last weekend.The 59-year-old Hall of Fame pitcher was released from the hospital Saturday evening after being admitted Friday for what he said was an artery spasm. "I have a condition where I have a spasm of the artery that leads into my heart," he said. "So when it does spasm, it's treated with medication. I basically hadn't been on medication for three or four years now and I just had a flare-up. So what it indicates is that I'm probably going to have to stay on medication."The condition was discovered when Ryan had double-bypass heart surgery in 2000. He said he's had the spasms before, but they usually pass quickly. This time he had two within a 10-minute span, which led to his hospitalization."You have all the symptoms of a heart attack when it happens," he said. "So you don't know if you're having a heart attack or if you're having a spasm, because there's no way to distinguish it."Ryan said he won't be able to exert himself physically in the camp for minor leaguers, which runs through Friday, but that he'll be "able to do everything I need to do."Ryan struck out 5,714 batters and pitched seven no-hitters -- both major league records -- in 27 years with the New York Mets, California Angels, Astros and Texas Rangers.He retired in 1993 and was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1999.Ryan is a majority owner of Triple-A Round Rock and the Double-A Corpus Christi Hooks, both affiliates of the Astros.</div>http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_ylt=AslZ...p&type=lgnsgood to see he is doing well after being in the hospital
