IN MEMORIAM: TOMMY JOHN, THE PITCHER WHO REFUSED TO LET HIS CAREER END

There are certain names in baseball that become bigger than the players themselves. Tommy John was one of them. His name became part of the baseball vocabulary, attached forever to a surgical procedure that has allowed thousands of pitchers including both starters in today's Mets game, to return to the mound after what once would have been a career-ending injury. But before there was “Tommy John…