Tommy John, namesake for a pioneering elbow surgery that saved his career, dies at 83
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The left-handed MLB pitcher was 31 years old when he tore the ulnar collateral ligament in his pitching elbow in 1974, an injury that had been a death knell for pitchers' careers up to that point.
Baseball legend Tommy John dies at 83
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