Orthopedic surgeon Dr. Frank Jobe, whom ElAttrache succeeded as Dodgers team doctor, devised the procedure, which involved taking a non-vital tendon from the wrist and transplanting it in the ...

The man who was trained by the legendary Dr. Frank Jobe in Los Angeles, who later had him serve as his proxy when the Dodgers came to town, gradually worked his way up. He started with the ...

Stretching the field requires occupying a safety (or two) deep to open up space and throwing lanes in the intermediate areas. If defenses want to match a linebacker on Musgrave, he has to win that ...

Tommy John, the ex-pitcher, is 81 now. In 1974 he was the first to undergo Dr. Frank Jobe’s pioneering technique of ulnar collateral ligament (UCL) elbow reconstruction, later named for him.

When Dr. Frank Jobe first performed the procedure on Tommy John nearly 30 years ago, he categorized John's chances of pitching again at about one percent. Today, when pitchers blow out an elbow ...

This technique, a combination of traditional Tommy John surgery—a procedure pioneered by Frank Jobe in the nineteen ... Cole told me. “From Dr. Jobe who pioneered the surgery, to the world ...

The procedure was first performed by Dr. Frank Jobe on Dodgers pitcher Tommy John in September 1974. Taking a tendon from John's wrist, Jobe drilled holes into John's ulna and humerus bones and ...