RIP Dr. Frank Jobe, creator of Tommy John surgery

Dodgers announced it:

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article/la/famed-surgeon-jobe-dies-at-88?ymd=20140306&content_id=68846290&vkey=news_la

Hard to imagine anybody saved more careers, and thus contributed more to fans' enjoyment of the game, than he did.

He was 88. RIP.

 

That was a life well-lived.

 

Imagining the coffin being carried by six pitchers with reconstructed arms.

 

Legen-dary. Every pitcher should tithe to his foundation.

And the inspiration for Lasorda's quote "I have the patients of Jobe."

 

Somebody on Twitter (I think it was Bleacher Report's Will Carroll) had the great idea that not only should the Dodgers wear a commemorative uniform patch this year, but every pitcher who has had Tommy John surgery should do so as well.

 

Here's another person who should certainly be in the Hall of Fame, if the Hall of Fame were about baseball history instead of whatever the hell it is about.