Lyons enters his eighth season as the Shuckers' Team Ambassador and is thrilled to help the team celebrate its 10th anniversary season. Lyons, who joined the front office as Team Ambassador in 2017, was integral to the team's move to Biloxi in 2015, marking the first Minor League Baseball team to call the Coast home since 1928. Lyons, a former seven-year MLB veteran with the Los Angeles Dodgers, California Angels, Chicago White Sox and New York Mets, will serve as a team ambassador throughout the community and assist in community relations efforts.
Lyons was born and raised in Biloxi, MS - a 1978 graduate of Biloxi High School and a 1984 graduate of Delta State University. Lyons was drafted by the Mets in 1982 and enjoyed a fourteen-year professional baseball career as a catcher and first baseman. He played a total of seven seasons in Major League Baseball.
After retiring in 1996, Lyons was a manager for three years in Minor League Baseball, two of which were with the Charleston Alley Cats, a Cincinnati Reds Class-A affiliate in Charleston, WV. He later served as a television and radio broadcaster for three years with the Nashville Sounds, Triple-A affiliate of the Pittsburgh Pirates in Nashville, TN.
Lyons moved back to Biloxi in 2002 and began an effort to bring Minor League Baseball to his beloved hometown of Biloxi and the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Over the past thirty years, he has organized, coached, and directed numerous instructional clinics, camps, teams, and leagues, as well as taught individual private hitting and catching lessons.