Word: cleon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...indulgent uncle, viewing the unreasonable incompetence of this "baseball team" with the serene knowledge that somehow this all could change. Like the good company man he always was, he touted the virtues of the Larry Stahls as well as the Tom Seavers, the Don Boschs as well as the Cleon Joneses...
...guess. By the time the crowd shoved and mauled its way through the gates 90 minutes later ("Hope no one has a heart attack," the aging man in front of me said humorously, his woman companion trying mournfully to smile) the car would have more dents than Cleon Jones's wallet, and the angry man would have gone off crying, hopeless, forlorn, hanging his once-proud head in shame, like Shoeless Joe Jackson at the Black Sox trial. Why--who--how could he have left the car there, this of all days? After a while the kids started throwing rocks...
...quadrophonic name in organized baseball. People used to come from miles away to listen to the 12-year old squirts who formed the core of the Mets' support bellow: "Ay! Gee! Ay! Gee!" The Mets traded him because he was supposed to be a troublemaker. He and his roommate, Cleon Jones, were supposed to be fomenting revolution. This is the sort of analysis you expect from Eric Sevareid. Sure enough, Mrs. Joan Payson, who owns the Mets, turned out to be a big contributor to the Committee to Re-elect. Tom Seaver and Ed Kranepool and so on used...
...Mets struck first in the second inning on a double by Cleon Jones and John Milner's single. The Mets added to their lead in the sixth inning on a walk to Jerry Grote and a triple by Don Hahn...
...CLEON E. HAMMOND...