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Hammond emerges from retirement to pitch for his kids

ATLANTA - Chris Hammond wasn't one of those ex-players who missed the game.

After packing up his uniform and glove, he basically ignored baseball for 21/2 years. Instead, he hunted and fished and went horseback riding. He helped take care of his three kids. He started making some progress on his wife's lengthy "honey-do" list.

In the mornings, Hammond would get up at sunrise, pour himself a cup of coffee and look out over the lake at his timber farm in rural Alabama, alone with his thoughts until the rest of the family woke up. "My time," he called it.

"It was like he never played," said his wife, Lynne Hammond. "I figured it was really, really over."

Well, it wasn't. Hammond and his wife ...

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