From Jackie Robinson to the Astros to the Skeeters, Deacon Jones lived a life of baseball and love
From the excitement of the draft to the many critiques afterward, Houston's top picks found the harsh spotlight before even playing a down“Sports is really incredible, and especially baseball,” Jones told author Bill Nowlin. “It crosses all racial lines, political, and even financial. For just a few minutes or hours or a season, it seems like we’re all together, we’re all human beings. It’s when you leave the stadium that things become so complex.
The next day, Virginia Jones again chose the covered section over the colored section. Within a week, the team’s owner announced that the franchise was packing up and moving to Lynchburg, Va., to finish the season. That debut was an emotional one for many reasons. Jones always said his younger brother, Johnny, was the better athlete and would have been a better professional baseball player, but he was injured in an accident when he was a teenager and had to have a steel plate put in his leg. Jones recalled a promise he made to his younger sibling during a hospital visit.
Houston Astros' hitting coach Deacon Jones gives instructions during a workout in Cocoa, Florida. Jones is using drills designed to improve Houston's hitting in runs-batted-in situations.Jones played only 40 major league games over three seasons but had a .286 average and .797 OPS. Arm issues held him back. He could always hit.
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