In a month, Chipper Jones will be 40 years old.  At the start of the 2012 season, he will have spent 19 years as an Atlanta Brave, and he will have been in the Braces organization since they drafted him in 1990.  He’s been an anchor at third base for most of that time, barring injuries, and he has always hit in the middle of the order.  All of these things will be ending after the 2012 season, when Chipper Jones will retire from the Atlanta Braves.

“There were times when I could have went out on the free-agent market and see if the grass was greener but I really didn’t think that it was,” said Larry “Chipper” Jones before a Grapefruit League spring training game against the Miami Marlins. “I never wanted to play [anywhere else].  I’m a Southern kid.  I wanted to play in a Southern town where I felt comfortable, and I felt comfortable from day one in the Braves organization. … I bleed red, white and blue”

Through good times and bad, Jones has been a rock for the Braves.  With Atlanta, he won a World Series ring, a National League MVP award, and was a 7 time All-Star.  He has also witnessed some epic collapses and failures in the playoffs, though he was injured for last year’s ron.

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