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Cleon Jones played football and baseball at Mobile County Training School in Mobile, Alabama, and Alabama A&M University. With the Bulldogs, he scored 26 touchdowns in nine games. He signed with the New York Mets as an amateur free agent in 1963. After batting over .300 for both the Carolina League Raleigh Mets and New York–Penn League Auburn Mets, He received a September call-up to the major league club without having played double or triple A ball. He got two hits in 15 at-bats during that first stint with the New York Mets.He became the Mets starting center fielder in his rookie year of 1966, and batting .275 with eight home runs, 57 runs batted in and sixteen stolen bases to finish tied for fourth in National League Rookie of the Year balloting.He will forever be remembered going down to one knee and pulling in Dave Johnson's fly ball to end the 1969 World series and making the Mets the champs, he joins Mark and AJ to talk about it all. Tune in each week on 540 am in NY NJ CT and streaming on www.sport