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  • The week in 'Met'rics (May 10-17)

    team’s first 38 games makes him the first Met ever to carry a .400 batting average beyond the team’s 30th game of the season. Cleon Jones was batting .411 after 30 games in 1969, but he slipped below .400 in his next game and never returned. He finished the   from ESPN Read more »

  • Schwei: ‘Walk-Off’ Slams Mets For 10th Time

    the first qualifying Mets batter ever to carry a batting average in the .400s beyond the team’s 30th game of the season. Cleon Jones was batting .411 after 30 games in 1969, but he slipped below .400 in his next game. The Mets host the Brewers and Reds this   from CBS New York Read more »

  • METS' WRIGHT SIZZLES

    this. Somewhat fittingly, they were put here 43 years ago, the same year that Neil Armstrong walked on the moon. Conjuring Cleon Jones — the only other Met with 50-or-more at-bats to have a .400 batting average on May 12 — David Wright tapped into terrain   from St. Louis Post-Dispatch Read more »

  • David, up to .402, helps Mets fillet Fish

    with a home run, three singles and three RBIs on a day the Mets collected 16 hits and made R.A. Dickey an easy winner. Cleon Jones, who was hitting .411 on this date in 1969, is the only other player in Mets history to be above .400 this late into the season.   from New York Post Read more »

  • Schwei: Where Jose Reyes Ranks In Mets History

    won the National League batting title last season, hitting .337, trailing only John Olerud (.354 in 1998) and Cleon Jones (.340 in 1969) for the best in Mets history among players with 400 or more at-bats in a single season. Reyes’ .337 average was also the   from CBS New York Read more »

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About Cleon Jones

Cleon Joseph Jones (born August 4, 1942 in Plateau, Alabama) is a former Major League Baseball left fielder who played for the New York Mets from 1963 to 1975. He threw left handed and batted right handed. While with the Mets, he played with childhood friend Tommie Agee . He played for a few weeks with the Chicago White Sox in 1976. His best season was with the so-called "Miracle Mets" of 1969, when he batted .340 (third in the National League), and was selected as an All Star. Also instrumental in 1973 pennant race hitting .319 while the New York Mets won the Eastern Division title on the last day of the season with a paltry .508 winning percentage and went on to upset the mighty "Big Red Machine" en route to a seven game World Series loss to the Oakland A's.

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