Chipper Jones Marquee Hall of Fame 2018

A knee injury in spring training erased his 1994 season before it started. He came back in 1995, hit 23 home runs, and the Braves won the World Series. He then drove in 100 runs in eight consecutive years, and in 1999 he was the league's Most Valuable Player with 45 home runs, 126 walks and a .319 average.

Atlanta finished first in each of his first eleven full seasons. He gave up third base for two of them, playing left field in 2002 and 2003 before moving back. He walked 1,512 times and struck out 1,409, the reverse of the usual ratio for a hitter with 468 home runs.

At 36 he hit .364, better than in any other full season he played. He retired after 2012 with 2,726 hits and a home run total only Mickey Mantle and Eddie Murray have bettered from both sides of the plate, and with more games as a Brave than anyone but Hank Aaron. The writers elected him in 2018 on the first ballot, 410 votes of 422.