Cleon Jones on the Miracle Mets, Gil Hodges and the Community He Calls Home

I'm

really excited we got to meet you.

So Cle, there's no end in sight to what you're doing.

I mean, a lot of times I've called you in the morning, you're gone by 8 o'clock, come back 8 o'clock at night.

You're gonna keep it up, keep doing what

you're doing.

Well, you know, You know, you made a valid point there.

You said there's no end to what I'm doing.

Hopefully there's no end to what I'm doing.

When you get to be 84, you know, at some point in time, you know you're going to slow down.

But now it's not the time to slow down.

I'm active as I've ever been, even at this age.

I don't move as fast, but I'm just as sturdy.

So it's just great for me, man, to be able to look in someone's eyes and see the gleam where we've done something that makes a difference in their lives.

If you don't do it, who does it, Cleo?

Well, I'm trying to train my son to have the same desire about this community as I have.

Certainly, It's not built in.

And whatever I do, it may stick with him, it may not, because we came along at a different time.

I came along when this community was united in every way, shape, or form.

And my neighbor was like a brother or sister or mother or father, depending on where I was in the community.

So we were one great community, a historic community that's still here and still thriving.

Did you tell me,

speaking of historic, did Africatown was the landing place from like the last slave ship to come over?

Well, it wasn't the last slave ship, but it was the last enslaved ship.

That's what