{"id":926,"date":"2015-05-26T16:57:57","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T16:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/?p=926"},"modified":"2015-05-26T16:57:57","modified_gmt":"2015-05-26T16:57:57","slug":"whos-reading-my-book-19-steve-lyons-former-red-sox-player-and-current-nesn-sports-personality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/whos-reading-my-book-19-steve-lyons-former-red-sox-player-and-current-nesn-sports-personality\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Who\u2019s Reading My Book\u2019 #19:  Steve Lyons, former Red Sox player and current NESN sports personality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Steve-Lyons-IMG_2694b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-929 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Steve-Lyons-IMG_2694b-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"Steve Lyons IMG_2694b\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Steve-Lyons-IMG_2694b-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Steve-Lyons-IMG_2694b-764x1024.jpg 764w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n\u2018Who\u2019s Reading the Book?\u2019 #19 features my friend Steve \u2018Psycho\u2019 Lyons, who played a number of different positions over his nine year Major League Baseball career.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Steve was a first round pick of the Boston Red Sox in 1981 when he was drafted #19 overall. He debuted with the Sox in \u201984 and also played for the White Sox, Braves, Expos and Cubs before ending his career as a member of the Red Sox for the third time in 1993. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Steve-Lyons4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-925 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Steve-Lyons4-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"Steve Lyons4\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Steve-Lyons4-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Steve-Lyons4.jpg 356w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Steve-Lyons-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-923 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Steve-Lyons-2-208x300.jpg\" alt=\"Steve Lyons 2\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Steve-Lyons-2-208x300.jpg 208w, https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Steve-Lyons-2-709x1024.jpg 709w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 208px) 100vw, 208px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Steve went on to be a successful MLB color analyst on Fox Sports Network, then worked in the broadcast booth for both the Diamondbacks and the Dodgers, before joining NESN as a Red Sox studio analyst in 2014.<br \/>\nSee why everyone is reading and raving about Paul D\u2019Angelo\u2019s hilarious new book \u2018Stories I Tell,\u2019 a global Gold Medal Winner of the 2015 eLit Book Awards and a Finalist in the 2015 International Book Awards.<br \/>\nYou can buy the book at Paul\u2019s web-site: www.pdangelo.com<br \/>\nor on Amazon.com at Paul\u2019s author page: http:\/\/amzn.com\/069229435X<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Who\u2019s Reading the Book?\u2019 #19 features my friend Steve \u2018Psycho\u2019 Lyons, who played a number of different positions over his nine year Major League Baseball career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whos-reading-my-book"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p614ww-eW","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=926"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":930,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926\/revisions\/930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}