{"id":77487,"date":"2026-08-16T14:56:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T19:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/16\/tommy-john-pitcher-whose-surgery-changed-baseball-dies-at-age-of-83\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T14:56:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T19:56:07","slug":"tommy-john-pitcher-whose-surgery-changed-baseball-dies-at-age-of-83","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/16\/tommy-john-pitcher-whose-surgery-changed-baseball-dies-at-age-of-83\/","title":{"rendered":"Tommy John, pitcher whose surgery changed baseball, dies at age of 83"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>John was first player to undergo pioneering operation<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>New York Yankees pay tribute to four-time All-Star<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tommy John, the namesake of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hopkinsmedicine.org\/health\/treatment-tests-and-therapies\/tommy-john-surgery-ulnar-collateral-ligament-reconstruction\">a ligament-replacement surgery<\/a> that paved a path to recovery for injured baseball players, has died. He was 83.<\/p>\n<p>TMZ.com reported that the pitcher died at his home in Florida, surrounded by his family, including his wife, Cheryl. John \u2060had recently been in hospice \u2060care.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/aug\/16\/tommy-john-pitcher-whose-surgery-changed-baseball-dies-at-age-of-83\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John was first player to undergo pioneering operation New York Yankees pay tribute to four-time All-Star Tommy John, the namesake of a ligament-replacement surgery that paved a path to recovery for injured baseball players, has died. He was 83. TMZ.com reported that the pitcher died at his home in Florida, surrounded by his family, including &#8230; <a title=\"Tommy John, pitcher whose surgery changed baseball, dies at age of 83\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/16\/tommy-john-pitcher-whose-surgery-changed-baseball-dies-at-age-of-83\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Tommy John, pitcher whose surgery changed baseball, dies at age of 83\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}