Rangers surprise retiring Jones with Mustang

ARLINGTON — Bobby Jones may very well end up with a World Series ring to cap his final year with the Rangers, but if that does happen, jewelry won’t be the only valuable keepsake he’ll have to remember the 2016 season.

Jones may have had dreams of driving off into that proverbial sunset, but now, thanks to the Rangers, that ride just got a lot sweeter.

Before the team began its final tuneup for Game 1 (Thursday on TBS/SNET, 4:30 p.m. ET/3:30 p.m. CT) with a workout at Globe Life Park on Wednesday, the players and staff conducted an impromptu on-field ceremony for the Jones, the club’s video replay coordinator who is retiring after 50 seasons in baseball, and 29 years with the Rangers.

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The gesture included a gift valuable in both practicality and sentimentality — a 1965 Mustang, driven onto the field by pitcher Colby Lewis.

Why that particular car? It was the same make and model as the car Jones gave to his brother when Jones left for a tour of duty in Vietnam in December 1969. His brother …

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