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What: “Beyond the Glory”

Where: Fox Sports Net, Sunday, 8 p.m.

The Chipper Jones story, as told in the next episode of “Beyond the Glory,” is more interesting than one might think. It’s a story of how a self-absorbed superstar matures and becomes a concerned family man.

Jones, drafted by the Atlanta Braves as a shortstop, was the No. 1 overall pick in 1990. He was the National League’s most valuable player in 1999 and is a five-time All-Star.

Jones’ baseball prowess is well-covered. But what is more interesting is how Jones has handled a sometimes troubled personal life. He became a tarnished golden boy when an extramarital affair led to the birth of a son out of wedlock in 1997.

Jones, divorced from his first wife in 1999, has since remarried and had a second son. But he has taken responsibility for his first son and sees him regularly.

He says of his former lifestyle: “I was cocky and arrogant and living the good life in the big leagues....There were many a times when I needed to be knocked down a peg.”

It was a tough two-hour phone call with his mother that influenced Jones to change his ways.

“I’ve never said things like that to anyone else,” Lynne Jones says.

“I was extremely disappointed in his moral character and I told him that I was. I thought he had more respect for women than that. I thought I’d taught him more respect for women than that.”