He was 7-for-18 with a .389 batting average and .421 on-base percentage in the World Series—second only to Carl Yastrzemski (who hit .400 for the Series) among the Red Sox.

On July 9, 1970, Jones hit a towering fly ball into the right field upper deck in Detroit with the bases loaded.

What should have been a grand slam ended up being a three-RBI single, as Jones passed teammate Don Wert between first and second base.

Jones says he was already at first when the ball landed in the upper deck, and he passed Wert just 1 or 2 steps past first base.

He made a comeback of sorts in 1989 in the Senior Professional Baseball League wherein as a member of the Winter Haven Super Sox, his most significant contribution was to introduce teammate Bernie Carbo to Jesus Christ.

As Bernie Carbo recounts, "I met a former major leaguer, Dalton Jones, at a swimming pool in Winter Haven, Florida.