Photos: Chipper Jones to retire after season

Posted Mar 22, 2012

By sbarker

Chipper Jones announced he will retire at the end of the season.

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Atlanta Braves third baseman Chipper Jones announces that he will retire following the 2012 season during a news conference before a spring training baseball game against the Miami Marlins in Kissimmee, Fla., Thursday, March 22, 2012. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
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New York Mets catcher Paul Lo Duca watches as Atlanta Braves Chipper Jones follows through on his sixth inning two-run single off New York Mets Orlando (El Duque) Hernandez in their baseball game at Shea Stadium in New York, Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2007. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
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FILE - In this April 8, 2011 file photo, Atlanta Braves' Chipper Jones waves to the crowd after hitting his 2,500 career hit in the sixth inning of a baseball game against the Philadelphia Phillies, in Atlanta. Jones says this will be his final season. Jones, who turns 40 next month, issued a statement through the team Thursday, March 22, 2012, saying he will retire after the season. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)
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Atlanta Braves' Chipper Jones, right, walks with his son Shea, 7, before the official start of baseball spring training on Sunday, Feb. 19, 2012, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
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Atlanta Braves third baseman Chipper Jones, left, listens to former manager Bobby Cox during Jones announcement that he will retire following the 2012 season during a news conference before a spring training baseball game against the Miami Marlins in Kissimmee, Fla., Thursday, March 22, 2012. Jones has spent his entire career with Atlanta, the same club that drafted him first overall in 1990.(AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
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Atlanta Braves third baseman Chipper Jones passes teammates before a news conference to announce that he will retire following the 2012 season, before a spring training baseball game against the Miami Marlins in Kissimmee, Fla., Thursday, March 22, 2012. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
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Atlanta Braves third baseman Chipper Jones (10) leaves a news conference with his family after announcing that he will retire following the 2012 season, before a spring training baseball game against the Miami Marlins in Kissimmee, Fla., Thursday, March 22, 2012. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
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Atlanta Braves third baseman Chipper Jones announces that he will retire following the 2012 season during a news conference before a spring training baseball game against the Miami Marlins in Kissimmee, Fla., Thursday, March 22, 2012. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
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The Atlanta Braves' Chipper Jones and Rafael Belliard, right, celebrate as Jones caught the final out, a pop up from the Cleveland Indians' Carlos Baerga, in Game 2 at the World Series in Atlanta, Sunday, Oct. 22, 1995. The Braves beat the Indians 4-3 to to take a 2-0 lead in the best-of-seven series. (AP Photo/Eric Draper)
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Atlanta Braves' Andruw Jones is congratulated by Chipper Jones and other teammates after scoring the winning run in the 11th inning of the Braves' 2-1 win over the Boston Red Sox, Saturday, July 10, 1999, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Alan Mothner)

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