Former Atlanta Brave Otis Nixon thanked the police officers who searched for him when he was reported missing last month.
Nixon delivered Jimmy John’s lunches to the entire Woodstock Police Department just before the lunchtime Thursday.
“We appreciate his kind gesture,” police spokeswoman Brittany Duncan said.
Detectives pursued leads and tips when the 58-year-old was reported missing by his girlfriend on April 9.
Nixon failed to show up for a Saturday morning tee time at a local golf course, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution previously reported.
The missing person report was a misunderstanding, Nixon said in a news release.
To thank the law enforcement officials who searched for him, Nixon partnered with Antioch Church and Woodstock-based Jimmy John’s restaurant owner, Gregg Unruh.
Pastor Ryan Lawson said the three men came up with the benefit.
“We thought, what better way to thank the men and women in uniform than to have Otis personally deliver their lunch from Jimmy John’s in an event that our church would sponsor,” Lawson said in the release.
Originally from North Carolina, Nixon began his Major League Baseball career playing with the New York Yankees in 1983.
He came to the Braves in a trade with Montreal only days before spring training ended in 1991 — at age 32 — and helped spark the team's worst-to-first season.
He stole a franchise record 72 bases that season, but was suspended for 60 days after failing a drug test. He missed the team’s trip to the World Series.
He entered Braves lore with game-saving heroics, known forever as "The Catch" in a 1992 game against the Pittsburgh Pirates.
He played in 17 major league seasons for nine teams, most notably four years with the Braves. He had 1,379 hits and 620 stolen bases in his career, before retiring at age 40 with the Braves in 1999.
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