Chipper jones biography information

For generations, many American fathers have raised their sons with dreams of emulating their baseball hero, Mickey Mantle. Chipper Jones’s father was no different.

From an early age, his son reminded him of The Mick: a small-town country boy with charming good looks, a Southern drawl, and a preternatural ability to hit a baseball from both sides of the plate.

“As a kid, I didn’t even know what Mantle looked like,” Jones said.

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“I only heard my dad talk about him. I just thought he had to be the coolest guy ever because he had the coolest name ever.”1

Mantle’s story was already the stuff of legend before Jones ever picked up a bat: his prodigious power and speed, his string of never-ending injuries and — despite an overwhelmingly successful career by any measure — his struggle to live up to fans’ folk-hero expectations of him on and off the field.

No baseball player has followed Mickey Mantle’s path more closely than the cocky kid from Pierson, Florida.

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