Marking 50 Years of Tommy John Surgery
On September 25th, 1974, a founding member of the Kerlan-Jobe Orthopaedic Clinic, Dr. Frank Jobe, performed a surgery he thought might have a 1% chance of success. His patient, Tommy John, was a pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers who had suffered what, before that moment, what had been long-considered a career-ending injury for pitchers:…