ATLANTA (AP) – Despite all the boos, Chipper Jones will always love Shea.

So fond of Shea Stadium where the fans heckle him, the Atlanta star named his new son after the New York Mets’ ballpark Monday – Shea Logan Jones.

“I love playing there,” Jones said. “Check the numbers.”

Jones has hit 17 home runs at Shea, his highest total at a visiting park, and his first major league homer came there on May 9, 1995. He is a lifetime at .314 hitter at Shea.

Jones was with his wife, Sharon, for the birth of their third child Monday. He made it back to Turner Field by mid-game, and struck out as a pinch-hitter in the seventh inning of a 7-6 win over San Francisco.

The couple planned to name the child Shea whether it was a boy or girl, Jones said.

Jones is not the only big leaguer to salute Shea in a special way. Cincinnati shortstop Barry Larkin, who also enjoys playing in New York, named his daughter Brielle D’Shea.

During the height of the Mets-Braves rivalry in the late 1990s, Mets fans taunted Jones with singsong chants of “Lar-ry, Lar-ry” – his real name. Jones still hears it from Mets fans, though the booing has not stopped the All-Star’s production at the plate.

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