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Chipper Jones Knocks Cover Off Baseball

If you consider a striking resemblance to Roy Hobbs to be a positive thing in a baseball player, it would seem that Chipper Jones' recovery from knee surgery is going quite well. Jones was taking batting practice at Turner Field on Tuesday morning when he caught one just right and literally knocked the cover off the...

MLB 2010 in Review: Best of the Rest

All this week, the FanHouse staff is looking back at the most significant baseball storylines of 2010. Our top stories are linked below, but there were many more high and low points... Hot Streaks • Troy Tulowitzki hit four home runs in 40 games between June 7 and Sept. 2, missing nearly six weeks during that span...

Steve Phillips' Fix My Team: Braves

Every team has a few precious months in the offseason to make tweaks to their roster and ensure that they improve in 2011. Steve Phillips has taken a team to the World Series before, and in November and December he will present his plan for every major league team to get there as well. It's the 23rd episode of Fix My Team,...

Martin Prado Is Done for the Season

The Braves' push to make the playoffs got a little more difficult on Tuesday when it was revealed that Martin Prado is finished for the 2010 season. Prado left Monday's game after a swing in the fifth inning and had an MRI Tuesday that showed a torn external oblique muscle in addition to a hip pointer. Doctors said that...

Brave Task in Front of Atlanta, Philly

John Schuerholz took in the autumnal climate in the Northeast over the weekend and declared, "It feels like the start of the fall baseball season." That October feeling intensifies this week, as far as the National League East is concerned, with the Braves and Phillies playing a three-game series in Philadelphia,...

Chipper Jones News From the Web

05/28/12 Chipper Jones has fluid drained from leg contusion Source: Comcast SportsNet On the disabled list with a left leg contusion, Chipper Jones underwent a minor surgical procedure over the weekend to remove 120 ccs of fluid from a hematoma.
05/27/12 Touch 'Em All: Larsen's 'perfect' uniform will go to... Source: Philly.com - Philadelphia PA He wore it again in Game 5, on Oct. 8, 1956, when he pitched the only perfect game in postseason history and the only no-hitter or perfecto in World Series history.
05/27/12 MLB notebook: Valentine rips into 'immature' Rays... Source: Arizona Daily Star - Tucson AZ Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine called out the Tampa Bay Rays' coaching staff a day after the teams were involved in a benches-clearing scrum.
05/26/12 Braves place Chipper Jones on DL with bruised leg Source: Republican-American - Waterbury CT The Atlanta Braves have placed Chipper Jones on the 15-day disabled list with a bruised left leg and recalled catcher J.C. Boscan from Triple-A Gwinnett.
05/26/12 Chipper Jones injury update: Braves' third baseman... Source: Sporting News Atlanta Braves third baseman Chipper Jones was put back on the disabled list following Friday's game because of a contusion on his left leg, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.

Background on Chipper Jones

Larry Wayne "Chipper" Jones, Jr. (born April 24, 1972) is an American professional baseball third baseman with the Atlanta Braves of Major League Baseball.

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