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Exes fight over Atlanta Braves tickets

ATLANTA --A woman is crying "Foul Ball!" about the way her ex-husband is distributing their behind-home-plate tickets to Atlanta Braves games.

H. Elizabeth King, a psychologist, accuses her ex, Charles Center, a lawyer, of breaking their 2002 divorce agreement on how to divide the tickets.

Before their divorce, King and Center had four tickets to 27 home games as part of a three-way, season-ticket partnership. Under their divorce agreement, he got the first home game, then each got 13 games.

But one of the partners died last year and King's ownership increased to a full third.

At the court hearing Tuesday, King claimed that Center, who is in charge of dispensing the tickets to the partners, goes out of his way to give her games that conflict with her schedule, and implied he gave her day games because she had skin cancer.

Center testified that he distributed tickets the way he always had: sequentially, according to a mathematical formula, adjusted when people asked or if there were conflicting schedules.

Superior Court Judge Melvin K. Westmoreland ruled he would not cite Center with contempt and urged the exes to settle it out of court.

When Center left the courtroom, he whooped in the hall outside: "I'm not going to jail! I'm not going to jail!"

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