Talk:Cleon Jones

message: Gil Hodges' long walk out to left field, to remove Cleon Jones from the game, is an immortal moment, not just in New York Mets history, but in modern baseball history. The person who hanged that "trivia" tag must be a Yankees fan.
68.237.85.190 (talk) 00:19, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Trivia tag

message: The article on Cleon Jones attributes the famous "shoe polish" incident to him, and having occurred during the 1969 World Series against the Orioles. In fact, it also happened to Nippy Jones of the Milwaukee Braves in game 4 of the 1957 World Series vs. the Yankees who was awarded first base when the home plate umpire reversed his decision (no "hit by pitch" call) after noting there was shoe polish on the ball.
See the Wikipedia article on Nippy Jones (a less famous player than Cleon Jones) for corroboration.
71.178.205.95 (talk) 16:39, 30 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cleon Jones Not To Be Confused with Nippy Jones 

message: Jones was arrested in 1975. Professional athletes brushes with the law are relevant so far as their wikipedia entry. As long as they are sourced. I put the sourcing in when I edited this post last May and did so again in today's edit. §  —Preceding unsigned comment added by WilliamJE (talk • contribs) 22:53, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cleon Jones 1975 arrest and apology 

message: I grew up watching the Mets and was 8 years old in 1969. My family moved to Florida in 1976, after which my Mets viewing dropped considerably.
I'm familiar with the game where Hodges pulled Cleon Jones. Newspapers at the time said Jones suffered a leg injury. Indeed, Jones missed games in August and September because of a hamstring pull and that may have been why he didn't win the batting title in 69/ . The first mention I could find that Jones may have been removed for not hustling, was dated August 18 1969. I think the truth lies somewhere in between, and that this story like many involving sports has gotten embellished with the passage of time.
What I did with the particular section, was point out that Jones did suffer a leg injury, missed time because of it, and what the real story was, and what was reported at the time, may not have been the same. I got news citations for all of this and edited them into the article.William 17:17, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  July 30th 

message: Mr Cleon Joseph Jones celebrated his eightieth birthday on June 24th, 2022. He was born in Platteau, Alabama on June 24th, 1942. His deceased brother was born on August 4th, a few years earlier. Yet, nearly every time Cleon’s biographical information was printed, the publisher made an error, and used his brother’s birthdate, instead of Cleon’s. The long-standing error was never corrected because Mr Jones never noticed it for many years. He was, after all, playing baseball, not reading about himself. We all wish Mr Jones many more happy and healthy years, and we’ll continue to celebrate his actual birthday, on June 24th, not August 4th. 2603:6010:4147:3400:78B4:6E2:49DE:B7DC (talk) 12:20, 1 July 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: https://www.wkrg.com/sports/new-york-mets-legend-turns-80/ 2603:6010:4147:3400:547D:3FCC:84E5:5416 (talk) 17:38, 2 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Actual date of birth