Even late in his career, whenever Chipper Jones came to bat and Mets fans chanted “Lar-ry! Lar-ry!” — his given name — he got a look in his eyes. The newspapers still called him a Met Killer, a name he had earned from years of clutch hits at Shea Stadium. Jones even named his son Shea, then denied that he had done so just to rile the Mets.
Freddie Freeman, the Braves’ young first baseman, watched Jones closely while they were teammates in Jones’s final two seasons. Freeman picked up on some of Jones’s habits and techniques.