CLASS OF 2024

Ty Lain - As a player, Ty Lain is considered one of the greatest shortstops in Wyoming American Legion Baseball history. Lain played an incredible five years for the Sixers’ varsity squad, starting at shortstop for four of those years and earning all-state honors three times. His individual accomplishments with Post 6 include 353 hits (third all-time), 73 doubles (fifth all-time), and 260 RBIs (fourth all-time). Lain also held the single-season ERA record of 0.72 for seventeen years, until the record was broken by current University of Utah standout Colter McAnelly in 2023. Lain played on four Wyoming state championship teams and was selected to play on the American Legion National Team at the USA Baseball Trials. In college, Lain started at shortstop for four years, beginning his career at New Mexico Junior College. He was an Academic All- American at Mississippi Gulf Coast in 2009-2010, and was part of the only Regis University conference championship team in 2012. In his college career, Lain was a .323 hitter. Lain’s accomplishments as a coach and manager in the Post 6 program are as astonishing as those as a player, if not more. He won three state championships as an assistant coach from 2012-2015 before taking over as the Program Manager in 2016. In his 8½ seasons at the helm of the program, Lain was twice named the Wyoming American Legion Baseball Manager of the Year—in 2016 and 2022. As the Sixers’ manager, Lain won 502 games, and had a winning percentage of .759. His teams won seven state championships, earned a Connie Mack World Series berth in 2019, and won Wyoming’s first ever American Legion Baseball Regional Championship in 2023. The 2023 team made it to the American Legion World Series semifinals. 

2022 State Champions and Regional Runner Ups - Lain will be the first person to tell you that the 2023 regional championship would not have been possible were it not for the 2022 Sixers, the other inductee into this year’s Hall of Fame. The 2022 Sixers finished their campaign with a 68-12 overall record, setting the all-time program record for winning percentage (.850). They went 13-1 in regular-season conference play before going undefeated at the Wyoming American Legion State Tournament to earn a berth at the American Legion Northwest Regional Tournament, where they finished as runner- up. Lain’s 2022 Sixers also hold the all-time program record for team ERA at 2.51. The 2022 Sixers boasted five first-team all-state players, four second-team players, and both the player and pitcher of the year, McAnelly. Incredibly, more than a dozen players from the 2022 Sixers went on to play in college. According to Lain, “The 2022 Sixers changed the entire program mindset and reset the level of expectation for what we need to accomplish. We went from hoping and wishing to get to the World Series, to expecting and demanding it from each other.” Lain added, “These guys showed a relentlessness and a fight at the back end of a Regional that I hadn’t seen as a head coach. In 2022, we went from being happy and excited to be in the last day, to absolutely expecting to win a Regional Championship.”