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Hammond emerges from retirement to pitch for his kids
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Charleston Daily Mail
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May 11, 2002
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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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