“Red Sox President Sam Kennedy called me that night and we met the next day – me, him, along with Red Sox owner John Henry and our manager, Buck Showalter. They were just like, ‘Hey, man, sorry, this happened. We will make sure that things like this don’t happen or try and prevent them as best we can,’” Jones recalled. “There’s nothing anybody can really do. But to have the owner come down there … that goes a long, long way.”
Jones has had the opportunity to help the next generation, via player agent Lonnie Murray, by mentoring young Black ballplayers.
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“First, I try to just basically tell them the truth. It’s a cutthroat business, a dog-eat-dog world, with professional sports, as in most businesses. I don’t sugarcoat it for them. But I also try to give them advice on how to battle everything that’s going on,” Jones said. “I just try and really just get in their heads about how hard do you really want to work? How hard do you really want this? Do you want it for the limelight, the glitz and the glamour? Do you want the back of a baseball card to be real long opposed to two little lines? So, what do they really want out of it and how they really want to go get it is kind of how I try to talk to these guys.”
As a student of history, Jones has appreciated his own interactions with the Black ballplayers that came before him.
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“I got to spend some time with Don Newcombe. Are you kidding me? To hear stories from Jackie Robinson’s roommate, I just sat there listening. You rarely get those kinds of opportunities, so you have to relish them. I’ve had the opportunity to spend time with Dave Winfield. Are you kidding me?” Jones said. “Obviously I’m done playing now, so I asked questions about retirement. You can’t just sit up in a house; you’ve got to do something. And these guys have so much knowledge, so you’d be a fool not to ask these guys questions.
“When you’ve got these guys in a room and you don’t ask them questions, you’re a fool. A first-ballot Hall of Fame fool.”
Bill Francis is the senior research and writing specialist at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
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