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Barry Lyons
Ultimate Mets Database popularity ranking: 109 of 1218 players
Lyons
Barry Stephen Lyons
Born: June 3, 1960 at Biloxi, Miss.
Throws: Right Bats: Right
Height: 6.01 Weight: 205

Barry Lyons was the most popular Ultimate Mets Database daily lookup on April 24, 2004, May 7, 2010, May 3, 2014, October 18, 2016, and March 21, 2017.

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First Mets game: April 19, 1986
Last Mets game: May 15, 1990

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Mr. Sparkle
April 11, 2001
This guy was always pissed off he didn't get more playing time behind Carter. Gimme a break Barry, you sucked! What did baldy do between 91 and 95??

Mr. Sparkle
May 30, 2001
I forgot about the Tudor incident, good point. Hats off to Barry!!!! I hated that rat look alike Tudor!

Joe Figliola
August 13, 2001
Barry Lyons ranks right up there with Mark Messier as one of New York sports' greatest chrome domes!

Barry (not Lyons)
September 30, 2001
When Tom Seaver was trying to come back to the Mets in 1990 ( I think), the Mets had him pitch in some simulated games at Shea. Barry Lyons, I remember, did real well against Seaver...which, I guess, among other factors, convinced Seaver to hang it up. I mean, if he couldn't even get Lyons out!

When Seaver retired, there was a press conference at Shea and a reported asked him who was the toughest batter he ever faced.

Seaver's answer: Barry Lyons

Larry Burns
May 23, 2002
Other than breaking Tudor's leg, which was pretty sweet, he was an awful backstop. For some reason people remember backup catchers fondly---eg. Duffy Dyer, Ron Hodges, and Todd Pratt. But this bald headed stooge could not get a job emptying the fry-o-later at the local Red Lobster with his baseball skills.

Barry Lyons
October 9, 2002
Yes, that's my real name, and no, I am not him. I was a Mets fan growing up as a kid in the 80's and it was great to have a ballplayer with the same name as me, on my favorite team, no less! He wasn't great at all, except in one minor league season when he had 108 rbi's once. My favorite memory is when he hit a grandslam of of Kelly Downs of the Giants. One of the New York newspapers here put "Lyons Roars" on the cover. That was really cool.

Mary
January 27, 2003
I remember meeting Barry in Delware Maryland in between games, (1986) he was a gentleman. Bought me a drink gave me a tee-shirt that I still have and a great kiss to go. I wonder if baseball is part of his life?

Etch 35
March 10, 2003
I remember him being a very "up" guy. Excited for the good things his teammates did as well as his own good plays. He was always on the top step of the dugout, just like Todd Pratt and Vance Wilson (I guess thats a backup catcher thing).

Seemed like he always did his best and was happy to be in the big leagues.

I also remember he was very bald.

Shari
March 22, 2003
Besides him breaking John Tudor's leg, his baldness is the only other thing about him that sticks out in my mind. I remember him taking his hat off and being completely shocked.

Bob P
September 3, 2003
According to Jayson Stark on espn.com, Barry Lyons is one of just 16 players since divisional play began in 1969 to have no base hits plus an intentional walk in the same season!

In 1986 Lyons came to the plate ten times. He made nine outs and was intentionally walked once.

Jonathan Stern
January 3, 2006
Wishing Lyons and his family well during these trying, post-Katrina times.

keith
April 3, 2008
Barry is my mother's first cousin. I grew up idolizing the man. He comes from a very talented and hard working family. He always taught me to follow my dreams and proved that if you do they just might come true. He's been a big influence on my life and many other baseball players from the Mississippi gulf coast. He's just a man who followed his dream and made it come true.

Bob Whitlock
March 12, 2013
To all Met fans old enough to remember this. Does anyone remember what year Barry Lyons was the starting catcher for opening day? I remember the headlines the next day in one of the NY papers reading "Base Bald" is back. There was a pick of him going for a foul ball in front of the Mets dugout. Does anyone remember the picture and what paper it appeared in? The only reason I ask is because I was sitting in a box seat right on the Mets dugout and I was in the picture with my hand out trying to catch the ball.

Bob P
March 19, 2013
Bob, a quick look at Retrosheet says that Barry was the Mets Opening Day catcher in 1990. The game was on Monday afternoon, April 9, 1990 at Shea and the Mets wound up with a rare Opening Day loss, 12-3, to the Pirates.

Barry hit a two-run homer off Doug Drabek in the second inning to give the Mets a 3-2 lead, but Dwight Gooden didn't have it that day, giving up 5 runs and 7 hits in 4.2 innings.

As an aside, the leadoff batter for the Pirates that day was their third baseman, Wally Backman.

Sorry, I don't remember the newspaper headline though.

Mark Nisall
June 13, 2020
I met Barry Lyons at The Las Vegas Club on Fremont Street sometime in the mid 1990s. His AAA team was playing there that weekend. The Vegas Club was a baseball themed casino and sold baseball cards out of a vending machine at the gift shop. I bought a pack of cards one of which was Lyons when he played for the Mets. As I showed these cards to my friends at a blackjack table and mentioned Lyons, a pit boss overheard the conversation. He told us that Lyons was in the casino at a nearby table. I went over to meet him and showed him the card. He signed it for me and engaged in conversation with me about his time as a Dodger. It was a strange coincidence and he couldn't have been nicer.








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