BASEBALL : DAILY REPORT : ANGELS : Free Agent Lyons Signs With Edmonton

By HELENE ELLIOTT

June 20, 1991 12 AM PT

Catcher Barry Lyons, who became a free agent when he refused an assignment to the Dodgers’ Albuquerque farm club, signed a contract with the Angels’ triple-A Edmonton affiliate.

Lyons, an unrestricted free agent, has a .236 batting average in his career. The Angels promised to recall him after he spends time with Edmonton. Lyons will join the Trappers Friday in Phoenix.

Lyons will be paid a prorated portion of the $220,000 salary he earned with the Dodgers. With the season slightly more than one-third over, that would amount to nearly $150,000.

Center fielder Junior Felix left Wednesday’s game after straining his right calf muscle, the same injury that put him on the disabled list June 4-18. The original strain occurred May 10.

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Helene Elliott

Helene Elliott was with the Los Angeles Times’ Sports department from 1989 to 2024, first as a staff writer and then, starting in 2006, as a columnist. She became the first female journalist to be honored with a plaque in the Hall of Fame of a major professional sport as the 2005 winner of the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Elmer Ferguson Award, awarded to writers “who have brought honor to journalism and to hockey.” A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, she has covered 18 Olympics.

BASEBALL : DAILY REPORT : ANGELS : Free Agent Lyons Signs With Edmonton

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