Was this a good thing...

Very cool!

Good luck to your son today!

That is cool! Son's favorite glove was a Tommy John Glove. Used it until it fell apart. Even tried duct tape.... :-)

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Wow! Tommy John! That is cool!

I would imagine a celebrity like Tommy draws quite a crowd when he shows up at tournaments.

Did your son have to stand in line to see him? Did he have to elbow his way in?




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.... Did he have to elbow his way in?




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That's funny right there...John spoke at the opening ceremonies, but ate at the same BBQ restaurant they ate at after the ceremony, and sat at the adjacent table...got a little contact in a casual setting. It was cool.

Tommy John spoke at your banquet? Was it over before 2am? That dude can talk....

My favorite line on Tommy John was, "If you ask him what time it is he will tell you how to make a watch."

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If I remember correctly the last step is screwing in those awfully little screws into the back bezel.






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Very cool!

Good luck to your son today!

Just FYI...he got the complete game win today...5K's, 6hits, 2bb's...1 ER...maybe a little did rub off...the good stuff!

I'm so jealous!!!!!

When I was a teeny-bopper of 12, most of my friends were in love with Sajid Khan(!), Davy Jones, and Bobby Sherman, etc..... Nope, not me. I was in "love" with Tommy John. He was on the White Sox at the time and I had the biggest crush on him....it was really ridiculous. Posters of a baseball player --no, not just A baseball player but THAT baseball player hung up all over my room. My sister who shared the room with me did not like it one bit. The boys in my class teased me like crazy but I knew more than they did about not only him, but the other White Sox players.

My brother found his book "Tommy John, My 26 Years in the Majors" about 10 years ago in the bargain section of a small bookstore and bought it for me--he said he paid 50 cents for it, but I don't believe him, I'm sure he was teasing me as usual because to me the book was priceless....And I read it more closely than I did any book for school, actually highlighting *the important parts*--practically the whole book!

So it was with irony that my son had the surgery that was named after the *love* of my life......

I would give anything to meet him! I'm so jealous!