Jones attended
Ithaca College. In his 11-year minor-league career (1955–56; 1959–67; 1969), Jones with 154
home runs and a
slugging percentage . His big-league experience consisted of 60 plate appearances and he (14
hits in 49
at bats) with one home run (hit off
Jim Hannan of the
Washington Senators on September 28, 1963) and 10
runs batted in. A great natural hitter, Jones still holds the
Midwest League record for the highest single-season batting average when he for the
Dubuque Packers in 1956. He also had 135 hits, smashed 26 homers and had slugging percentage in only 330 at bats. After retiring as a player, Jones served as a scout and
minor-league coach and manager in the White Sox organization through 1973. Jones was a coach for the
Houston Astros from 1976–82, and with the
San Diego Padres from 1984–87. Jones joined the
Baltimore Orioles as a minor-league hitting coach and liaison with minority communities. In later years, Jones served as the special assistant to the president for the
Sugar Land Skeeters, a member of the independent
Atlantic League of Professional Baseball. He remained as a special advisor when the Skeeters became the
Sugar Land Space Cowboys, the
Triple-A affiliate of the
Houston Astros. Jones died on May 7, 2023, at the age of 89. ==References==