Most famous U.S. miler headlines hall's induction
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What would ESPN have done had it been around in 1964 when a 17-year-old junior became the first high schooler to break the four-minute mile, and as a senior was named the fourth best miler in theworld?
"That's a good question, and I don't know the answer," Jim Ryun told The Enquirer this week. ‘"Maybe they'd have made it bigger than it already was, but I was already getting a lot of attention. I was being asked to do interviews, and I really didn't know what to say."
This country's most famous miler and five-term U.S. Congressman (1996-2006) from Kansas, will have something to say Sunday as the keynote speaker at the Greater Cincinnati Running Hall of Fame's Inaugural Induction Banquet at the original Montgomery Inn.
