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Happy Birthday Cleon Jones

Posted by Train Dude on Tue Aug 4 19:44:56 2020

78 years old today. Caught the last out in the 1969 world series.

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Re: Happy Birthday Cleon Jones

Posted by Catfish 44 on Tue Aug 4 20:12:53 2020, in response to Happy Birthday Cleon Jones, posted by Train Dude on Tue Aug 4 19:44:56 2020.

Mazel tov
Good ball player for sure
Also today is Tom Seaver’s 300th win on Phil Rizzuto Day in 1985.
Rod Carew got his 3000th hit the same day in 1985.
Nolan Ryan punched Robin Ventura in the head a half dozen times on this day in 1993.

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Re: Happy Birthday Cleon Jones

Posted by Train Dude on Tue Aug 4 20:14:36 2020, in response to Re: Happy Birthday Cleon Jones, posted by Catfish 44 on Tue Aug 4 20:12:53 2020.

LOL Busy day

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Re: Happy Birthday Cleon Jones

Posted by Catfish 44 on Tue Aug 4 20:58:11 2020, in response to Re: Happy Birthday Cleon Jones, posted by Train Dude on Tue Aug 4 20:14:36 2020.

That’s just what I remember from the top of my head

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Re: Happy Birthday Cleon Jones

Posted by Train Dude on Tue Aug 4 20:59:30 2020, in response to Re: Happy Birthday Cleon Jones, posted by Catfish 44 on Tue Aug 4 20:58:11 2020.

Impressed

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Re: Happy Birthday Cleon Jones

Posted by Catfish 44 on Tue Aug 4 21:16:07 2020, in response to Re: Happy Birthday Cleon Jones, posted by Train Dude on Tue Aug 4 20:59:30 2020.

Thanks
Now I cheated and looked it up and it’s also Dallas Green’s birthday, if he were alive, Ray Oyler of Jim Bouton Ball Four fame but he died around 1981. And local BJ Surhoff turns 56 today.

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Re: Happy Birthday Cleon Jones

Posted by Mitch45 on Tue Aug 4 21:34:19 2020, in response to Happy Birthday Cleon Jones, posted by Train Dude on Tue Aug 4 19:44:56 2020.

Also hit a career high .340 in 1969, losing the batting title to Pete Rose.

That .340 mark stood as the Mets' record for a single season batting average for almost 30 years. John Olerud broke it in 1998 when he hit .354 (he didn't win a batting title either).

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Re: Happy Birthday Cleon Jones

Posted by Catfish 44 on Tue Aug 4 21:45:02 2020, in response to Re: Happy Birthday Cleon Jones, posted by Mitch45 on Tue Aug 4 21:34:19 2020.

Very good.

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Re: Happy Birthday Cleon Jones

Posted by FYBklyn1959 on Tue Aug 4 22:18:39 2020, in response to Re: Happy Birthday Cleon Jones, posted by Catfish 44 on Tue Aug 4 20:12:53 2020.

I attended the Carew game at Anaheim Stadium. Only time I've seen a milestone in person.

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Re: Happy Birthday Cleon Jones

Posted by FYBklyn1959 on Tue Aug 4 22:19:20 2020, in response to Re: Happy Birthday Cleon Jones, posted by Mitch45 on Tue Aug 4 21:34:19 2020.

I think Cleon was third to Rose and Matty Alou (of Pittsburgh).

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Re: Happy Birthday Cleon Jones

Posted by FYBklyn1959 on Tue Aug 4 22:23:23 2020, in response to Happy Birthday Cleon Jones, posted by Train Dude on Tue Aug 4 19:44:56 2020.



A great time. Luckily, I developed a sore throat on Monday night, so I was able to stay home and watch Games 3 through 5 (also luckily that my grandmother was able to come over to stay with me since my mother had to work). I actually felt better going into Thursday, but I told my mother "better give it one more day" 🙂

And Davey Johnson, makes the last out for the Mets first World Championship, and manages them for their other one.

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Re: Happy Birthday Cleon Jones

Posted by Catfish 44 on Tue Aug 4 22:32:29 2020, in response to Re: Happy Birthday Cleon Jones, posted by FYBklyn1959 on Tue Aug 4 22:18:39 2020.

Oh wow really!??! That’s really cool

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Re: Happy Birthday Cleon Jones

Posted by Catfish 44 on Tue Aug 4 22:33:09 2020, in response to Re: Happy Birthday Cleon Jones, posted by FYBklyn1959 on Tue Aug 4 22:23:23 2020.

Cool cool cool

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Re: Happy Birthday Cleon Jones

Posted by Mitch45 on Tue Aug 4 22:54:38 2020, in response to Re: Happy Birthday Cleon Jones, posted by FYBklyn1959 on Tue Aug 4 22:19:20 2020.

Nope, it was Rose (.348), Clemente (.345) and then Cleon (.340).

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Re: Happy Birthday Cleon Jones

Posted by Catfish 44 on Wed Aug 5 01:24:35 2020, in response to Re: Happy Birthday Cleon Jones, posted by FYBklyn1959 on Tue Aug 4 22:23:23 2020.

Cool cool cool

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Re: Happy Birthday Cleon Jones

Posted by BrooklynBus on Fri Aug 7 13:16:45 2020, in response to Happy Birthday Cleon Jones, posted by Train Dude on Tue Aug 4 19:44:56 2020.

Back in the early 70s, I am pretty sure he was the car ahead of me outside Shea Stadium. Who else would have the NY license plate “cleon”?

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Re: Happy Birthday Cleon Jones

Posted by FYBklyn1959 on Fri Aug 7 14:34:26 2020, in response to Re: Happy Birthday Cleon Jones, posted by Mitch45 on Tue Aug 4 22:54:38 2020.

Oh OK. Maybe Matty was second in 1970.

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