In 1989, Jones won First Team All-State honors in both football and baseball, and won a state championship in baseball. 391 batting average and seven home runs, earning him First Team All-State honors.
In baseball, he had a 6–3 win–loss record with 87 strikeouts and a 1.89 earned run average (ERA) as a pitcher, with a. He went to The Bolles School as a sophomore, where he was a two-way player in football. Jones began his high school baseball career at Taylor High School, where he pitched a one-hitter as a freshman. Jones received the nickname "Chipper" from his father and other family members, who saw the younger Larry as a "chip off the old block." He showed an early love for baseball predominantly because of his father's position as coach, and began to play Little League teams at age seven. DeWitt Taylor High School in Pierson, the same high school Jones would later attend and play baseball. His father, Larry Wayne Jones Sr., was a teacher and coach at T. He returned to the Braves as an assistant hitting consultant in 2021.Ĭhipper Jones was born in DeLand, Florida, on April 24, 1972. Jones served as an ESPN color analyst in 2020. On July 29, 2018, he was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility. On June 28, 2013, the Braves retired Jones' number 10 and inducted him into the team's Hall of Fame. 500 slugging percentage-and the only switch hitter to reach all of these milestones. He was the 18th player in MLB history to accumulate 5,000 at bats and finish with at least a. Among switch hitters, Jones ranks second behind Eddie Murray for career RBIs, and he is the only switch hitter in MLB history with a career batting average of at least. He has the most career RBIs for a third baseman and holds the Braves team record for career on-base percentage (.402) Jones ranks third on the Braves career home run list. 303 career batting average, 468 home runs, and 1,623 runs batted in (RBIs). He was the MLB batting champion in 2008 after hitting. An eight-time All-Star, Jones won the 1999 National League (NL) Most Valuable Player Award and the 19 NL Silver Slugger Award for third basemen.
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He was also a member of their 1995 World Series championship team that beat the Cleveland Indians. The Braves chose Jones with the first overall pick in the 1990 MLB draft.
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(born April 24, 1972) is an American former professional baseball third baseman who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Atlanta Braves from 1993 to 2012. September 11, 1993, for the Atlanta Braves
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