ATLANTA -- Andruw Jones has watched each of the past eight Baseball Hall of Fame election results shows while sitting at the same sushi bar in Buckhead. Each of the past few years, he has rolled out of the establishment feeling more optimistic.

In fact, there’s reason for Jones to believe this might finally be the year he gains baseball’s greatest honor. But instead of getting overly excited, the former Braves great will attempt to maintain the poise he showed back in 1996, when -- at the age of 19 -- he homered in his first two career World Series plate appearances.

“You just never know what the vote is going to be or what is going to happen,” Jones said. “The first few years I was [on the ballot], I didn’t really put much mind to it. I would watch and congratulate who got in. But whe

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