COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. -- Chipper Jones traveled to Cooperstown for the 2004 Hall of Fame exhibition game that used to be played on an annual basis. The legendary third baseman also proudly watched from afar as other iconic members of the Braves' organization came to upstate New York at some point over the past four years to receive baseball's greatest honor.
Jones has had mental images of the Baseball Hall of Fame dating back to his childhood, when he learned it was a place reserved to honor legends like Mickey Mantle. But until Tuesday morning, the former Braves third baseman had never stepped for in this hallowed Hall, within which he will now be immortalized alongside baseball's other greats.