MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - Cleon Jones played football and baseball at Mobile County Training School and Alabama A&M University. The New York Mets signed him as a free agent in 1963, and without playing a ...

AFRICATOWN — Cleon Jones was born here and he will die here and he will spend his remaining days working so that his community long outlives him. He will play the final few innings like Gil Hodges ...

Cleon Jones, hero of the 1969 Miracle Mets, recalls his two introductions to Jackie Robinson: The first as a 6-year-old Alabama kid, listening to his hero’s Brooklyn exploits over the airwaves. And ...

Despite leading the Mets to their first World Series with his bat, Cleon Jones is perhaps best remembered from the grainy footage of his most famous play with his glove. Settling in at the warning ...

PORT ST. LUCIE – Over 57,000 fans filled the seats of Shea Stadium on a brisk Thursday afternoon in October of 1969 to watch the Amazin’ Mets win their first championship. 50 years later, New York ...

AFRICATOWN, Ala. (WALA) - Volunteer crews are working this week to help rebuild Africatown. This work is all thanks to the combined efforts of the Heart 9/11 organization and Mets legend Cleon Jones’ ...

Cleon Jones always will be remembered as a key player in the miracle that was the 1969 world champion New York Mets. Even before that, the former leftfielder was part of a different, ongoing miracle: ...

Mobile's Cleon Jones, who caught the final out in the New York Mets' upset victory over the Baltimore Orioles in the 1969 World Series, told Newsday columnist Jim Baumbach that he handed the ball to ...

Former New York Mets all-star outfielder Cleon Jones is now 80, but he's proving you're never too old to make a difference. Jones caught the last out as the 1969 Miracle Mets won the World Series, ...

When Cleon Jones first heard about George Floyd’s killing by police, he was transported back to Mobile, Alabama, in 1977. The former Mets outfielder was driving home while his wife, Angela, was doing ...

Fifty years to the day after the final out of the World Series settled into his glove, Cleon Jones will still be chasing around a little white ball. Only this time, he’ll be on the golf course, and ...