The MLB legend gave his name to a surgery that saved countless careers. Here's what we know so far about his death at 83.
One of Tommy John's biggest legacies to MLB was his comeback elbow reconstruction surgery that now bears his name.
Long-time Major League Baseball pitcher Tommy John, whose name is synonymous with a groundbreaking elbow surgery that saved his career and countless hurlers since, died, officials said Sunday.
Tommy John, a reliable stalwart of big league rotations who won 288 games over three decades while seeing his name become synonymous with a medical procedure that has saved the careers of countless ...
Tommy John and Dr. Frank Jobe changed baseball from an operating room in 1974.
John, in 1974, underwent a then-experimental elbow surgery that would later save the careers of countless pitchers ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tommy John, who won 288 games during a 26-year big league career and became the first pitcher to successfully return following groundbreaking elbow surgery that later was named ...
He won 288 career games and pitched for 26 seasons, thanks to becoming the first to undergo Dr. Frank Jobe's elbow surgery.
Tommy John released a heartfelt farewell message on Yankees Old-Timers' Day just one week before his death, thanking Dr. Jobe and fans.
A pitcher who recovered from a then-unprecedented elbow surgery to appear in 26 major league seasons, one shy of the record, died.