Nolan Ryan his own arm. He also has appeared in various television commercials shown in the Texas market. After retiring from baseball, Ryan teamed up with the federal government to promote physical fitness. His likeness was used in the "Nolan Ryan Fitness Guide", published by The President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports in 1994. Ryan suffered a heart attack on April 25, 2000, and had to receive a double coronary bypass. In February 2008, the Rangers hired Ryan as team president. After the 2009 season, Ryan and Chuck Greenberg submitted a bid to purchase the Rangers from owner Tom Hicks. At
British land speed record Mile (150.76 m.p.h.) and Flying Kilometre (150.86 m.p.h.). Henry Segrave on 16 March 1926 set the land speed record in his 4-litre Sunbeam Tiger " 'Ladybird' " on the sands at Southport, England at 152.3 m.p.h. "The mean time for the flying kilometre was 14.6876 seconds equal to 245.11 kilometres per hour, or 152.308 miles per hour." The car suffered supercharger failure during the record run and did not break the mile record. On 27 April 1926, at Pendine Sands J. G. Parry-Thomas in the Higham-Thomas Special "Babs" set the Flying Mile record at 168.07 m.p.h. and the Flying Kilometre