Besides his 1955 election into the Baseball Hall of Fame, in 1981 Lawrence Ritter and Donald Honig included Lyons in their book The 100 Greatest Baseball Players of All Time
Ted Kennedy | Ted Turner | Ted Nugent | Ted Williams | Ted Hughes | Ted Koppel | Ted Kotcheff | TED (conference) | Ted Rall | Lyons | Ted Danson | Ted Berrigan | Ted Ray | Ted Leo | Ted Strickland | Ted Kulongoski | Ted Drake | TED | Ted | Father Ted | Ted Nelson | Ted McCarty | Ted Mack | Ted Levine | Ted Leo and the Pharmacists | Ted Ray (comedian) | Ted Allen | Better Off Ted | Tommy Lyons | Ted Lewis |
Most notably, White Sox manager Ted Lyons and Cleveland Indians president Bill Veeck discussed trading him for Indians pitcher Steve Gromek, but the deal was nixed when they could not come to an agreement.