After Retirement
Instead of playing for the Rangers in 1996, Lyons became a minor league manager for the next three years. He was the manager of the Cincinnati Reds' A-level Charleston Alley Cats in 1998 when he left the team after being denied a promotion. He then spent three years in Nashville, Tennessee broadcasting for the Nashville Sounds as well as running a baseball academy.
In 2002, Lyons moved back to his home town of Biloxi and became involved in efforts to bring professional baseball back to Mississippi's coast where no team had played since 1928. In 2004, he was the general manager for the inaugural season of the amateur Cotton State League's Biloxi Breeze .
Lyons was married in the early 1990s and had a daughter in the late 1990s. He, his family and his father as well as his efforts to bring pro baseball to southern Mississippi were severely rocked by Hurricane Katrina. The storm devastated the Mississippi coast and Lyons' home in 2005. He and his family rode out the storm and lost their house and memorabilia – including his 1986 World Series ring – but all managed to survive.
Barry Lyons is trying to get a minor league baseball stadium included in the rebuilding of his hometown of Biloxi.
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