by Josh Alper
If you consider a striking resemblance to Roy Hobbs to be a positive thing in a baseball player, it would seem that Chipper Jones' recovery from knee surgery is going quite well. Jones was taking batting practice at Turner Field on Tuesday morning when he caught one just right and literally knocked the cover off the ball. Dave O'Brien of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution has a picture of the ruined baseball while Jones did a little a bit of crowing after his big connection.
"That's what you've got to look forward to this year," he said.
While that seems unlikely, the fact that Jones was in the cage and stroking the ball (hitting from the left side, by the way) is a good sign that he's going to be ready to go when the pitches start counting for real. Now he just needs to work on the rest of his game.
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Source: http://mlb.fanhouse.com/2011/02/01/chipper-jones-knocks-cover-off-baseball/
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