{"id":5977,"date":"2026-08-17T09:14:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T09:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/2026\/08\/17\/tommy-john-baseball-pioneer-of-groundbreaking-elbow-surgery-dies-at-83\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T09:14:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T09:14:13","slug":"tommy-john-baseball-pioneer-of-groundbreaking-elbow-surgery-dies-at-83","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/2026\/08\/17\/tommy-john-baseball-pioneer-of-groundbreaking-elbow-surgery-dies-at-83\/","title":{"rendered":"Tommy John, Baseball Pioneer of Groundbreaking Elbow Surgery, Dies at 83"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Legendary pitcher Tommy John, whose career was saved by a revolutionary elbow surgery that now bears his name, has died at age 83. John won 288 games over 26 seasons and became the first to successfully undergo the UCL reconstruction procedure, paving the way for thousands of athletes to continue their careers.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/image.cnbcfm.com\/api\/v1\/image\/108350096-1725766558867-gettyimages-179537301.jpeg?v=1725766643&amp;w=900&amp;h=600&amp;ffmt=jpg&amp;vtcrop=y\" alt=\"Tommy John during his Yankees career\" style=\"width:300px\"><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2024\/09\/08\/tommy-john-namesake-for-a-pioneering-elbow-surgery-that-saved-his-career-dead-at-83.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">READ MORE FROM CNBC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legendary pitcher Tommy John, whose career was saved by a revolutionary elbow surgery that now bears his name, has died at age 83. John won 288 games over 26 seasons and became the first to successfully undergo the UCL reconstruction procedure, paving the way for thousands of athletes to continue their careers. READ MORE FROM [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/image.cnbcfm.com\/api\/v1\/image\/108350096-1725766558867-gettyimages-179537301.jpeg?v=1725766643&amp;w=900&amp;h=600&amp;ffmt=jpg&amp;vtcrop=y","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","category-global-affairs","rifnote_team-california-angels","rifnote_team-chicago-white-sox","rifnote_team-cleveland-indians","rifnote_team-los-angeles-dodgers","rifnote_team-new-york-yankees","rifnote_team-oakland-athletics","rifnote_competition-major-league-baseball","rifnote_player-bryce-harper","rifnote_player-justin-verlander","rifnote_player-mike-marshall","rifnote_player-shohei-ohtani","rifnote_player-tommy-john","rifnote_executive-stan-kasten"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/image.cnbcfm.com\/api\/v1\/image\/108350096-1725766558867-gettyimages-179537301.jpeg?v=1725766643&amp;w=900&amp;h=600&amp;ffmt=jpg&amp;vtcrop=y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}