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"Tommy John" surgery: a career-saving procedure for many pitchers.
WRIGLEY FIELD, A LAZY WEDnesday afternoon in an early-season game last year between the San Diego Padres and Chicago Cubs.
Unexceptional, really, except for the starting pitchers with the four-inch long scars on the sides of their fight elbows.
Adam Eaton and Kerry Wood, with fastballs clocking in the mid-90s mph, pitch seven strong innings each and strike out a total of 23 batters. The box score--a 2-0 Padres victory--is testament to a career-saving surgery now as routine as it is remarkable.
The doctors call it a UCL--ulnar collateral ligament reconstruction.
Baseball players and fans call it Tommy John surgery, after the pitcher who ...
- Tommy John surgery hits close to home for Bluefish.
- Newspaper article from: Connecticut Post (Bridgeport, CT) June 10, 2007 700+ words
...leaguer for whom the surgery was named...Johns. He's Tommy John. Dr. (Frank) Jobe did his surgery and I was at the...Clinic getting my surgeries done. So it...underwent his second Tommy John surgery at Inglewood...
- Once cutting edge, Tommy John surgery now delivers routine relief.
- Newspaper article from: The Dallas Morning News (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service) June 1, 2005 700+ words
...pitchers are perfect Tommy John candidates. This...told to rest. Surgery was a last resort...the number of surgeries. "I've had...approximately 100 Tommy John surgeries each year. Jobe...since that first surgery 31 years ago...
- Tommy John surgery prevalent: Part one of two.
- Newspaper article from: News Herald (Panama City, FL) July 27, 2007 700+ words
...the first person to have the surgery, Tommy John, has revitalized countless...with area ties also underwent Tommy John surgery, including Alan Horne, Andrew...from ever having to do another Tommy John surgery. Andrews said more than 90...
- JOINT EFFORT TOMMY JOHN SURGERY IS A SOURCE OF HOPE FOR PITCHERS ATTEMPTING TO...
- Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO) Etkin, Jack August 27, 2001 700+ words
...replacement operation commonly called Tommy John surgery. These days it has become...pitcher is told he must undergo Tommy John surgery and won't pitch for about...birthday when he underwent Tommy John surgery on May 29, 1997, in Pittsburgh...
- 30TH ANNIVERSARY FOR TOMMY JOHN SURGERY\ JOBE'S PROCEDURE HAS SAVED MANY...
- Newspaper article from: The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH) September 23, 2004 700+ words
...397 games), had the option of undergoing Tommy John surgery. It could have saved, and extended, the...Who was the second pitcher to undergo Tommy John surgery? As to when Tommy John surgery became "Tommy John surgery,'' the answer...
- At 28, Boston Park League pitcher Zach Soolman defied convention and underwent...
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald Buckley, Steve June 30, 2002 700+ words
...surgery, otherwise known as Tommy John surgery. Performing the operation...was talked into performing Tommy John surgery on a 28-year-old Boston...the surgery. Since then, Tommy John surgery has been performed on thousands...
- Tommy John elbowed way into history: In 1974, surgery extended its namesake's...
- Newspaper article from: Newsday (Melville, NY) June 11, 2007 700+ words
...Jobe said, 'The best one I ever did was Tommy John, so let's call it Tommy John surgery,'" said John, who missed more than...of having his career ended by major arm surgery in 1974, Tommy John wound up undergoing a pro
- GAGNE GETS SOME GOOD NEWS CLOSER DOESN'T NEED SECOND TOMMY JOHN SURGERY.(Sports)
- Newspaper article from: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) June 25, 2005 700+ words
...indicated Gagne would need Tommy John surgery, but Jobe discovered, while...ligament. Gagne underwent Tommy John surgery in 1997, but Jobe said that...require any maintenance. If Tommy John surgery had been necessary, Gagne...
