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Father knows hitting best

By Gary Miller
Special to ESPN.com

Friday, September 3, 2004

Chipper Jones had the worst first half of his life, but missing out on an All-Star appearance for the second straight year might turn out to be the key to the best second half of his career. With his dad recovering from an angioplasty procedure, Chipper spent the break in July with Larry Wayne Jones Sr. at Chipper's ranch outside Houston. It was then, and during another in-person tuneup when the Braves played the Astros the first week of August, that the elder Jones schooled the chip off the old ...

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