One of Missouri’s baseball icons is gone.
Doug Jones spent more than three decades coaching high school baseball, mostly in Mansfield. He coached a state record 741 victories in his career and was inducted into the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame in 2016.
Jones, 60, suffered from a rare form of brain cancer for the final year of his life. His Mansfield Lions teams reached the state semifinals six times (1990, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1996 and 2005) and won back-to-back state championships in 1995 and 1996.
Most recently, Mansfield went 16-5 in 2016 and won the Class 2 District 10 championship.