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Chipper back as an All Star

By john • Jul 8th, 2008 • Category: all star, atlanta braves, chipper jones, major leagues, top story

Chipper Jones selection to the National League All Star team was the 6th of his career but the first since 2001. Sometimes players are selected to All Star teams based on previous years performance but Jones has earned this selection.
In recent years Jones had seemed to be a reoccuring trip to the DL with a [...]


Maddux’s 350 win is more then just a number

By john • May 11th, 2008 • Category: 300 wins, chipper jones, greg maddux, johan santana, ken griffey jr, manny ramirez, roger clemens, tim hudson, top story, warren spahn

The number 350 may just be a number to Greg Maddux but it’s a pretty huge number in the history of baseball.
Each morning when I check on the status of my blog I look to see if there are any new incoming links and I check on just how many people are visiting. Sure it [...]


An open apology to Chipper Jones

By john • Mar 2nd, 2008 • Category: atlanta braves, chipper jones

He’s got a cool nick name, an MVP award, multiple silver slugger awards, and a bunch of team records and still I’ve never listed Chipper Jones too highly on my favorite players list.
Chipper has taken pay cuts twice to help the Braves and even moved to left field at one point to make room for [...]