Nolan Ryan he ever win a Cy Young Award. Ryan is one of only 29 players in baseball history to have appeared in Major League baseball games in four decades and the only MLB pitcher to strike out seven pairs of fathers and sons. Ryan was born in Refugio, south of Victoria in south Texas, the youngest of six children, to Lynn Nolan Ryan Sr. (1907–1970), and the former Martha Lee Hancock (1913–1990). The senior Ryan operated a newspaper delivery service for the "Houston Post" that required him to rise in the early morning hours to prepare 1,500 newspapers for delivery over
Stanley Miles a cycle shop in Victoria Street and customised both road and track frames. Throughout 1935 Miles competed in 15 events, winning four and finishing third seven times. His victory tally included: the "Anerley '12' hour" with a record distance of 239¼ miles; the "Brighton Mitre '50' mile" in 2 hours, 7 minutes 3 seconds; the "Highgate '100' mile" in 4 hours 34 minutes 25 seconds; and the "Ealing '50' miles" in 2 hours 7 minutes 3 seconds. These achievements meant that he won the title of Best All-rounder with an average speed of 21.809 mph, the second fastest ever achieved