EOFException при чтении HashMap из файла

try (ObjectInputStream in = new ObjectInputStream(new FileInputStream(new File(PLAYERS_FILE_NAME)))) {
            players = (HashMap<String, Player>) in.readObject();
            new Saver().start();
}

static {
        try (ObjectOutputStream out = new ObjectOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(new File(PLAYERS_FILE_NAME)))) {
                out.writeObject(new HashMap<String, Player>());
            
}

java.io.EOFException
    at java.io.ObjectInputStream$BlockDataInputStream.peekByte(ObjectInputStream.java:2626)
    at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1321)
    at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject(ObjectInputStream.java:373)
    at SeaBattleServer.RemoteServerImpl.<init>(RemoteServerImpl.java:21)
    at SeaBattleServer.StartServer.main(StartServer.java:33)

    static {
        try (ObjectOutputStream out = new ObjectOutputStream(new BufferedOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(new File(PLAYERS_FILE_NAME))))) {
                out.writeObject(new HashMap<String, Player>());
            
        } catch (FileNotFoundException ex) {ex.printStackTrace();}
          catch (IOException ex) {ex.printStackTrace();} 
    }