{"product_id":"graded-1991-score-chipper-jones-671-rookie-rc-baseball-card-psa-10-gem-mint","title":"Graded PSA 10 Gem Mint Chipper Jones 1991 Score #671 Rookie RC Baseball Card","description":"\u003cp\u003e⚾ \u003cstrong\u003eChipper Jones 1991 Score #671 Rookie RC PSA 10 GEM MINT — Atlanta Braves Third Baseman — DeLand, Florida — 1990 #1 Overall MLB Draft Pick — 1995 World Series Champion — 1999 National League MVP — 8x All-Star — Baseball Hall of Fame Class of 2018 — 19 Seasons in Atlanta — PSA 10 GEM MINT Certified\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e⚾ A PSA 10 GEM MINT certified Chipper Jones 1991 Score #671 rookie card — from the 1991 Score baseball product, one of the first mainstream trading card sets to document Jones's professional existence after the Atlanta Braves selected him with the first overall pick in the 1990 MLB Draft. Chipper Jones — Larry Wayne Jones Jr., whose childhood nickname became the name the sport knew him by throughout a 19-year career spent entirely in Atlanta — is captured here in the Score format before his first MLB plate appearance, before the 1995 World Series championship, before the 1999 MVP season, before the eight All-Star selections, before the Hall of Fame induction. This is the document of the beginning: the Florida kid who became a Brave before anyone outside Pierson, Florida had seen him swing a bat in professional competition. PSA 10 GEM MINT: the maximum grade. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🌟 \u003cstrong\u003eDeLand, Florida — Pierson, Florida — Marion County — The Florida Kid Who Would Never Leave Atlanta\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChipper Jones was born April 24, 1972, in DeLand, Florida — the Volusia County seat south of Daytona Beach in Central Florida — and grew up in Pierson, Florida, a small Marion County community in the Volusia-Marion borderlands whose name is known primarily to the fern farming industry and to baseball historians who traced the development of one of the sport's greatest players back to its high school programs. His father Larry Jones played semiprofessional baseball, and the Chipper nickname emerged from the family expression 'a chip off the old block' — the son whose baseball ability was inherited and then exceeded everything the father had demonstrated. He attended Taylor High School in Pierson and was drafted first overall in 1990 as a shortstop — a shortstop who would eventually move to third base for Atlanta and spend the rest of his career winning Gold Gloves at the position he made his own. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e⭐ \u003cstrong\u003e1990 #1 Overall Pick — Atlanta Braves — The Greatest Era in Braves History — 1991-2005 — Fourteen Consecutive Division Titles\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Atlanta Braves selected Chipper Jones with the first overall pick in the 1990 MLB Draft, and what followed across his development through the Braves minor league system and his arrival in Atlanta in the early 1990s was one of the most sustained runs of organizational excellence in baseball history. From 1991 through 2005, the Atlanta Braves won 14 consecutive division titles — a streak of excellence that has never been matched in Major League Baseball, powered by Tom Glavine, John Smoltz, and Greg Maddux at the front of the rotation and by a positional lineup that included Jones at third base as the offensive anchor and the face of the franchise. Jones was part of the 1995 World Series championship team — the Braves defeating the Cleveland Indians 4-2 in a series that ended the franchise's most painful drought — and he was part of the postseason runs that followed through the rest of the decade, even when the World Series championships did not come. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🏆 \u003cstrong\u003eThe 1999 NL MVP Season — The Switch-Hitter — The .400 On-Base Machine — Hall of Fame 2018\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChipper Jones's 1999 season was the peak individual performance of one of the great careers in National League history: he batted .319 with 45 home runs, 110 RBI, and a .441 on-base percentage as a switch-hitter — a player who could hit for power from both sides of the plate, whose left-handed and right-handed swings were both legitimate offensive threats, and whose ability to get on base at a .400+ clip made him the most complete offensive third baseman in the sport. He won the 1999 National League MVP Award unanimously. His career batting average of .303, 468 home runs, and .401 on-base percentage across 19 seasons — all with the Atlanta Braves — produced the Hall of Fame case that voters acknowledged when they inducted him in the 2018 class with 97.2% of the vote. The 1991 Score #671 PSA 10 GEM MINT is the maximum-grade certified card of the DeLand, Florida product who became Atlanta's greatest position player and the Hall of Fame switch-hitter the sport spent 19 seasons watching grow from the first overall pick into a legend. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e📦 \u003cstrong\u003eItem Details\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eItem: Chipper Jones 1991 Score Rookie RC #671. Grade: PSA 10 GEM MINT (Professional Sports Authenticator). Player: Chipper Jones (Larry Wayne Jones Jr.). Born: April 24, 1972, DeLand, Florida. Draft: 1990, 1st overall, Atlanta Braves. Career: 19 seasons, Atlanta Braves. Accolades: 1995 World Series champion; 1999 NL MVP; 8x All-Star; Baseball Hall of Fame 2018 (97.2% vote). Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e⚾⭐ DeLand. Florida. Pierson. Marion County. The fern farms. Taylor High School. A chip off the old block. The nickname. The 1990 MLB Draft. Atlanta. The Braves. Pick number one. Overall. The minor leagues. The development. 1991. The debut. 1995. The World Series. The championship. Cleveland. The series. The win. 1999. The MVP. The switch-hitter. .319. 45 home runs. 110 RBI. .441 on-base. The unanimous vote. 2018. Cooperstown. The Hall of Fame. 97.2% of the vote. 19 seasons. One team. Always Atlanta. The 1991 Score card. Card 671. The beginning document. PSA 10. GEM MINT. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hall of Fame Sports Memorabilia","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48039439925480,"sku":"1991-S-CJ-671-PSA-10","price":124.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/2718\/4037\/files\/graded-1991-score-chipper-jones-671-rookie-rc-baseball-card-psa-10-gem-mint-vintage-498.webp?v=1770766015","url":"https:\/\/vintageantiquesgifts.com\/products\/graded-1991-score-chipper-jones-671-rookie-rc-baseball-card-psa-10-gem-mint","provider":"Vintage and Antique Gifts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}