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Met His Wife Citation?

Is there any reference that he met his wife in a mall? I'm pretty confident that this is incorrect. ibjhb —Preceding comment was added at 19:18, 15 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Pic?

Is there not a pick for andruw? Chuck61007

Wijstreewn der Vanklänkenwijk

Andruw göerten vanstruijk ijselseen von göerthruwij. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.222.52.162 (talk) 13:09, August 22, 2007 (UTC)

Nationality

What is Jones nationality? It should be mentioned in the lead sentence per wp:mosbio. --Tom 00:50, 9 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

He is from the Netherlands. Jpletzke (talk) 19:54, 31 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Awards

i spruced up the awards section and made it look cool. Enjoisktboarding2 (talk) 20:00, 19 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Personal

MARRIED THE FORMER NICOLE DERICK HAS ONE SON DRUW, DAUGHTER MADISON FROM A PREVIOUS RELATIONSHIP RESIDES IN DULUTH GA IN THE OFFSESSON —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.8.111.55 (talk) 06:11, 14 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Early professional career

The last sentence: "breaking Mickey Mantle's record of 20 years, 362 days - on Mantle's birthday, so he actually was 21 years old." doesn't really make sence to me. Could someone explain what the part behind the dash means? Mltinus (talk) 07:20, 12 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I added that he started his career with the atlanta braves because it seemed from the beginning like he was always a yankee. Jpletzke (talk) 19:57, 31 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Retirement

Anyone out there able to confrim that he said after the season ends he's going to retire. I swear I heard it somewhere, but can't find it anywhere. Can someone please find out if this is true or not? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.0.32.234 (talk) 01:39, 20 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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There was a related discussion at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Baseball#Andruw_Jones, where there was no consensus to add hits.—Bagumba (talk) 14:24, 7 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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2023 World baseball Classic

Coached Netherlands team 98.18.30.98 (talk) 00:41, 1 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]