Chipper Jones' swing looked the same as it always does, only hewas sporting baggy gray sweatpants to go with the familiar tobaccodip in his bottom lip, the toe tap and the sweet levelfollow-through. If Jones was favoring his surgically repaired left knee Fridaymorning, it didn't look like it when he got back into the battingcage for the first time in five months since his career wasthreatened by a torn knee ligament. "Swing never changes," marveled former Brave and current Giantsinfielder Mark DeRosa, who joined Jones and Brian McCann for a turnin the cages at Turner Field. "It's the same as when I firstwatched him take [batting practice] in the minor league cages inthe spring of '96." Jones started with soft toss from Braves coach Terry Pendleton, eightto 10 swings from th
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Published January 8, 2011 at 7:40 AM
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