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...highest ever.* The streak also propelled the Mets into second place in the National League's Eastern Division, the first time they have been so high in league standings. The one player who gets most of the credit for the Mets' historic performance is Leftfielder-First Baseman Cleon Jones...
...Jones is, by Mets' standards, a grizzled veteran. For years, he has been yearning for a .300-plus batting average. His trouble in the past, he believes, stemmed from well-meaning managers who insisted that he pull the ball toward Shea Stadium's beckoning leftfield fences. Cleon dutifully followed their advice until the middle of the 1968 season, when he decided in a fit of frustration to return to his natural swing. He has been hitting better than .300 ever since. "I'm a line-drive hitter," he explains, "and I have to hit the ball where...
...unassuming. "I think he has handled all the attention like a real big leaguer," says Mets Manager Gil Hodges. But there is one thing that goes to Jones' head: the barrage of pitches from National League hurlers, who are employing the traditional retaliatory weapon against a hot hitter. Cleon is not intimidated. He sprawls in the dirt, dusts himself off, clutches his bat and plants his feet solidly again-while delirious Met fans dream their impossible dreams...
...AMERICAN SOCIETY, founded in Salt Lake City, has as its guiding light one of the busiest speakers in the rightist movement: W. Cleon Skousen, a balding, bespectacled onetime FBIman who hit the anti-Communist circuit in earnest in 1960. after being fired from his job as Salt Lake City's police chief ("He operated the police department like a Gestapo." says Salt Lake City's conservative Mayor J. Bracken Lee). Skousen freely quotes the Bible, constantly plugs his book, The Naked Communist, presses for a full congressional investigation of the State Department...
...Cleon Skousen, 47, FBI veteran and Mormon Sunday-school teacher, who has run a model police force for 3½ years...