RIP Dr. Frank Jobe, 88

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The surgeon who invented the ligament replacement surgery that has saved the careers of numerous pitchers and other athletes died Tursday in Santa Monica of undisclosed causes.

http://www.latimes.com/obituaries/la-me-frank-jobe-20140307,0,7968857.story#axzz2vTLjkJ00

He was secretly very happy that the first patient upon whom this new technique was performed was named Tommy John and not William Van Landingham.