The first big league game Ted Lyons ever saw, he saw from the pitcher’s mound. The 22-year-old Baylor University graduate, who had intended to study law but instead joined the Chicago White Sox, never played a game in the minor leagues.
Lyons spent his entire career with the White Sox, from 1923-42, and again in 1946. At the age of 41 in 1942, Lyons enlisted in the Marines.
