{"id":5964,"date":"2016-09-30T12:31:18","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T19:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=5964"},"modified":"2016-09-30T12:36:58","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T19:36:58","slug":"jones-cleon-joseph-1942","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=5964","title":{"rendered":"JONES, CLEON JOSEPH, 1942-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Professional baseball player.\u00a0 Born&#8211;Mobile, August 4, 1942. Education&#8211; Mobile County Training School; Alabama A &amp; M University.\u00a0 Played in the New York Mets organization, 1963-75.\u00a0 Played for the Chicago White Sox, 1976.\u00a0 Left fielder; considered one of the strongest arms in the National League.\u00a0 A member of the &#8220;Miracle Mets&#8221; of 1969; Jones made the final catch that cinched the World Championship for the Team.\u00a0Named to National League All-Star Team, 1969. Named to the New York Mets Hall of Fame\u00a0in 1991, the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame, and the Mobile Sports Hall of Fame.\u00a0 2012, named the Mets&#8217; All-Time Left Fielder by a\u00a0 panel of sportswriters and sportscasters.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Young, A.S.\u00a0 The Mets from Mobile.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Publications;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cleon.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Coward-McCann, 19+70.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography; Professional baseball player.\u00a0 Born&#8211;Mobile, August 4, 1942. Education&#8211; Mobile County Training School; Alabama A &amp; M University.\u00a0 Played in the New York Mets organization, 1963-75.\u00a0 Played for the Chicago White Sox, 1976.\u00a0 Left fielder; considered one of the strongest arms in the National League.\u00a0 A member of the &#8220;Miracle Mets&#8221; of 1969; Jones made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5964"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5969,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5964\/revisions\/5969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}