The next 1970 card to get the "on-card all-star" banner is New York Mets outfielder Cleon Jones, who had himself quite a season in 1969, including starting for the National League in that year's "Midsummer Classic":
Jones
was on his way to a career-year, finishing up with a .340 batting
average, along with 92 runs scored and 75 runs batted in and 164 hits,
all career-bests, while helping lead the surprising Mets to their
improbable World Championship over the heavily favored Baltimore
Orioles.
Those numbers got him a seventh-place finish in MVP voting, and a lot of love in NYC among Mets fans.
Jones would play twelve of his 13-years in the Major Leagues with
the Mets, finishing up in 1976 with a scant twelve games playing for the
Chicago White Sox.
He'd finish with a .281 career average, with 1196 hits in 4263
at-bats over 1213 games, and of course that World Championship with the
1969 "Miracle Mets".
