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Atlanta Braves News and Rumors

Dale Murphy Once Got A Lame Autograph From Richard Nixon

Tom Ley, deadspin.com

Yesterday, former Atlanta Braves star and beloved-by-the-internet old dude Dale Murphy decided to celebrate President's Day by showing his Twitter followers a picture of one of his prized pieces of memorabilia: a baseball with Richard Nixon's autograph …

Associated Press, ESPN.com

The Atlanta Braves will retire Chipper Jones' number and induct him into the team's hall of fame on June 28.

Associated Press, ESPN.com

Atlanta Braves closer Craig Kimbrel was almost unhittable in 2012. He has bigger plans this season.

Anthony Castrovince, MLB.com

The early word out of Braves camp was that Dan Uggla was more ripped than ever -- a seemingly comical claim, given Uggla's notoriously Popeye-like physique.

Jayson Stark, ESPN.com

Chipper Jones hears the talk, the whispers, the rumblings out there that if the Atlanta Braves need him in June, he's a poetic comeback story waiting to happen. His response Monday to that kind of talk: "It's not gonna happen."