{"id":527,"date":"2005-08-22T02:15:49","date_gmt":"2005-08-22T02:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=527"},"modified":"2013-11-30T02:18:25","modified_gmt":"2013-11-30T02:18:25","slug":"cleon-jones-in-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=527","title":{"rendered":"Cleon Jones in 12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/images\/Jones21.jpg\" width=\"184\" height=\"320\" \/>Thanks to MBTN reader\u00a0<strong>Pete<\/strong>\u00a0for finding and identifying this rare photo of\u00a0<strong>Cleon Jones.\u00a0<\/strong>As he notes:\u00a0<em>It shows\u00a0<strong>Cleon Jones looking to be wearing the #12 Jersey\u00a0<\/strong>with the World&#8217;s Fair patch which would be from 1965. The picture is taken at Wrigley Field. The Mets were there In late July and Mid-September of &#8217;65 after\u00a0<strong>Jesse Gonder<\/strong>\u00a0who had been wearing #12 was traded on July 21st of that year. It is probably from the September trip because\u00a0<strong>Ron Hunt (#33)<\/strong>\u00a0is in the picture and he was on the disabled list from May 11th until August 5th of &#8217;65.\u00a0<\/em>That confirms our suspicions that Jones did indeed wear No. 12 that year (after his recall Sept. 1, precisely) and officially qualifies him among three-numbered Mets (he wore 34 prior to &#8217;65 and 21 after). Thanks, Pete!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to MBTN reader\u00a0Pete\u00a0for finding and identifying this rare photo of\u00a0Cleon Jones.\u00a0As he notes:\u00a0It shows\u00a0Cleon Jones looking to be wearing the #12 Jersey\u00a0with the World&#8217;s Fair patch which would be from 1965. The picture is taken at Wrigley Field. The Mets were there In late July and Mid-September of &#8217;65 after\u00a0Jesse Gonder\u00a0who had been wearing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=527\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cleon Jones in 12&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[194,195,196],"class_list":["post-527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cleon-jones","tag-jesse-gonder","tag-ron-hunt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":528,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions\/528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}