inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Lyons served as a scout with the White Sox until his retirement in 1967. Lawrence Ritter and Donald Honig included Lyons in their book The 100 Greatest Baseball Players of All Time (1981). On July 25, 1986, Lyons died in a nursing home in Sulphur, Louisiana. One year later, the White Sox retired his uniform number, #16. However, aside from the 21 players who wore it through 1986, it had not been reissued since Lyons retired for good in 1946, and it had long been understood that no White Sox would ever wear it again. In 2013, the Bob Feller Act of Valor Award honored Lyons as one of 37 Baseball Hall of Fame members for his service in the United States Marine Corps during World War II. See also List of knuckleball pitchers List of Major League Baseball career wins leaders List of Major League Baseball annual ERA leaders List of Major League Baseball annual wins leaders List of Major League Baseball no-hitters List of Major League Baseball player-managers List of Major League Baseball players who spent their entire career with one franchise References Further reading Honig, Donald (1975) Baseball When the Grass Was Real: Baseball from the Twenties to the Forties Told by the Men Who Played It. New York: Coward, McGann & Geoghegan. pp. 108–125. . External links 1900 births 1986 deaths Sportspeople from Lake Charles, Louisiana National Baseball Hall of Fame inductees Major League Baseball pitchers Chicago White Sox players Detroit Tigers coaches American League All-Stars American League ERA champions American League wins champions Brooklyn Dodgers coaches Chicago White Sox managers Chicago White Sox scouts Baseball players from Louisiana Baylor Bears baseball players Baylor Bears men's basketball players Major League Baseball pitching coaches Major League Baseball players with retired numbers Knuckleball pitchers Minor league baseball managers Major League Baseball player-managers United States Marine Corps personnel of World War II United States Marines American men's basketball players