Mack Jones

Mack Jones (November 6, 1938 - June 8, 2004), nicknamed "Mack The Knife", was a MLB left fielder who played for the Milwaukee & Atlanta Braves (1961-67), Cincinnati Reds (1968) and Montreal Expos (1969-71). He batted left-handed and threw right-handed.

Facts

• A former Triple-A Syracuse SkyChiefs outfielder, Mack Jones was inducted into the Syracuse Baseball Wall of Fame in 2000. He had one of the better seasons ever by a Syracuse player in 1964, when he batted .317 with 15 doubles, 18 triples, 39 home runs and 102 runs batted in. He holds modern-day (since 1961) single-season Syracuse records for runs scored (111), total bases (337), RBIs, triples and home runs, all set in '64. Jones was part of a famed Syracuse outfield that season that included future major-league stars Wille Horton and Jim Northrup.
• Both Mack Jones and Doug Ault of the Toronto Blue Jays are the only two people to hit the first home runs of their franchise history outside the United States. Sadly both of them died in 2004.