PORT ST. LUCIE — Fifty years later, Cleon Jones wants to set the record straight regarding what happened that 1969 day in left field at Shea Stadium when Mets manager Gil Hodges came out to remove Jones from the game.
As legendary broadcaster Paul Harvey used to say: Now, the rest of the story.
“I know everybody here wants to get to the fact that he walked out onto the field and got me,’’ Jones — now 76 — said in the dugout of First Data Field on Friday as he sat alongside fellow Miracle Mets Art Shamsky and Ed Kranepool, all three dressed in full uniform.