Baseball lost a revolutionary figure today, Dr. Frank Jobe.
http://www.latimes.com/obituar....story#axzz2vFuONnZb
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RIP. Truly changed the game of baseball. Untold numbers of guys still playing the game that would have been long done.
Should be inducted into the Hall of Fame, posthumously on THIS ballot...
How many pitchers do you think owe their careers to Frank Jobe? How different would the MLB have looked in the seventies, eighties, and nineties without him?
I agree. His contribution has changed the game forever.
How is he NOT already in the Hall of Fame? He is tied to more wins than ANY other person in MLB history!
My son had TJ Surgery at the Kerlan-Jobe Clinic in Los Angeles on July 30, 2012. When we left the clinic that Monday, we passed by an elderly gentleman that was sitting on the bench outside the building. It happened to be Dr. Frank Jobe. Evidently he enjoyed visiting the place that he and Dr. Robert Kerlan successfully established years ago. I regret that I didn't stop and ask him to take a photo with my son as he was being wheeled out of the surgery center. RIP Dr. Jobe....and YES, he should be in the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
Something interesting from an article in today's NY Times about Dr. Jobe:
Dr. David Altchek, the medical director for the Mets and a co-chief in the Sports Medicine & Shoulder Service at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York, said baseball patients were amazed to learn that the condition was not caused by an improper pitching style.
“Really, really good technique increases it the most,” he said, adding that as players got bigger and stronger, the need for surgery would only increase.