{"id":56480,"date":"2023-09-03T14:49:47","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T18:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ifintechworld.com\/investing\/tommy-john-surgery-is-in-the-news-and-a-chicago-nun-104-jokes-shes-a-candidate\/"},"modified":"2023-09-03T14:49:50","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T18:49:50","slug":"tommy-john-surgery-is-in-the-news-and-a-chicago-nun-104-jokes-shes-a-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifintechworld.com\/?p=56480","title":{"rendered":"Tommy John surgery is in the news, and a Chicago nun, 104, jokes she\u2019s a candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n \u201c<\/span>\u2018I\u2019ll be having Tommy John tomorrow. God bless.\u2019\u201d<\/span>\n <\/p>\n


\n \u2014 Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, B.V.M.<\/span>
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That\u2019s Sister Jean, the Catholic nun who rose to national fame five years ago, at the age of 98, during Loyola University Chicago\u2019s otherworldly run to the Final Four in the NCAA basketball tournament. The still-active team chaplain, a member of the BVM order, had just thrown, submarine style, a ceremonial first pitch marking her 104th birthday before a Cubs game at Wrigley Field when she issued her Tommy John quip<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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No laughing matter, that surgical procedure, of course \u2014 as all-round baseball megatalent Shohei Ohtani can attest. The Japan-born pitcher and power hitter, 29, is weighing a second such procedure, having previously gone under the knife in 2018, the same year as the Loyola tournament run. <\/p>\n

The procedure, formally a reconstruction of the\u00a0ulnar collateral ligament of the elbow, was pioneered in the 1970s by Los Angeles orthopedic surgeon Frank Jobe and first performed on Los Angeles Dodgers lefthander Tommy John, who went on to resume a celebrated pitching career (and to become so closely linked with the surgical intervention that, at times, mention of his name renders the word surgery superfluous, as in Sister Jean\u2019s wisecrack).<\/p>\n

Ohtani, who also toils in the Los Angeles area, as a member of the \u2014 attention: Sister Jean \u2014 Angels, would become part of a wave of pitchers in recent years requiring a second Tommy John surgery.<\/p>\n

Chicago Cubs pitcher Jameson Taillon, quoted Sunday in the Chicago Tribune, offered encouraging words, based on his experience as as two-time Tommy John patient. After his first procedure, in 2014, he said, he told fellow players who sought advice about the ordeal that they should prepare \u201cto never feel good ever again.\u201d <\/p>\n

After his second surgery, five years later, he felt as if he had \u201ca new arm.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n