Cleon Jones didn’t own his first baseball glove ... a primarily Black neighborhood three miles north of downtown Mobile, Alabama. The Mobile area has raised many baseball Hall of Famers ...

Cleon Jones didn’t own his first baseball glove ... a primarily Black neighborhood three miles north of downtown Mobile, Alabama. The Mobile area has raised many baseball Hall of Famers ...

Forty years later, Cleon Jones can recall exactly what ... It's all over,'" the Mobile native said recently. Jones, playing left field, caught Davey Johnson's fly ball for the final out of the ...

“When they (learned we) were going down to help Cleon Jones, they were in,” said Earl. Jones, 80, got his start playing baseball as a youth attending Mobile County Training School in ...

Cleon Jones ... “Sorry!” Jones laughs. “All right, girl, all right. We ain’t going to mess with you.” We bounce down the road deeper into Africatown, Mobile’s ancient black quarter ...

New York Mets great and Mobile native Cleon Jones was at the Mobile Regional Airport in west Mobile signing copies of his book, “Coming Home: My Amazin’ Life with the New York Mets.” ...

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 ...

Former New York Mets all-star outfielder Cleon Jones is now 80 ... his hometown of Africatown, just north of Mobile, Alabama, through his Last Out Foundation "When I came up in this community ...

For good measure, throw in the name of Cleon ... Mobile as a historical neighborhood. About 1,700 people live there today, as many as 100 of them are direct descendants of those original slaves ...