Ruppert Jones
| Ruppert Jones | |||
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| Center fielder | |||
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Born: March 12, 1955 Dallas, Texas |
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| MLB debut | |||
| August 1, 1976, for the Kansas City Royals | |||
| Last MLB appearance | |||
| October 4, 1987, for the California Angels | |||
| MLB statistics | |||
| Batting average | .250 | ||
| Home runs | 147 | ||
| Runs batted in | 579 | ||
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Ruppert Sanderson Jones (born March 12, 1955) is a former Major League Baseball center fielder. He was the first player selected in the 1976 Major League Baseball expansion draft by the Seattle Mariners.
Jones was born in Dallas and moved to California as a pre-teen. He played baseball, basketball and football at Berkeley High School in Berkeley, California, earning all-East Bay honors in each sport. He received scholarship offers to play football at Arizona State University, Oregon State University and the University of California, but opted to focus on baseball as he considered himself a better outfielder than wide receiver.
He was drafted by the Kansas City Royals in the third round of the 1973 Major League Baseball draft. After three seasons in their farm system, in which he batted .287 with 38 home runs and 173 runs batted in, Jones went into Spring training 1976 competing for the open outfield job in right field. Though he had a decent Spring, he was beaten out by Tom Poquette, and reassigned to triple A Omaha just as the regular season was set to begin.
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