NY Times · Jun 28, 2019
For Cleon Jones, Baseball Was Only the Beginning
Karsten Moran for The New York Times
MOBILE — “Hey Cleon! Thanks for the roof!”
Cleon Jones leans out the window of his van and frowns at the woman who has called to him from her porch. “If Jesse weren’t sitting there” — Jones points at her white-haired husband — “I’d throw a brick at y’all. You weren’t even at our community meeting today.”
The woman holds her arms up, mock surrender, and smiles. “Sorry!”
Jones laughs. “All right, girl, all right. We ain’t going to mess with you.”