The White Sox of Ted Lyons 21 year tour of duty were not a good team. They perennially finished near the bottom of the league, yet Lyons managed to rack up 260 wins. Legendary judge of talent Joe McCarthy said that if Lyons had played for his Yankee squad he would have won 400 games. The first two wins of his career came on the same day when as a reliever he won both games of a double header. He was a crafty hurler with a wide arsenal of pitches and one of my favorite paintings to look at.
Ted Lyons
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