{"id":642,"date":"2013-09-20T18:05:55","date_gmt":"2013-09-20T18:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandlotstats.com\/wp\/?p=642"},"modified":"2018-07-23T18:08:23","modified_gmt":"2018-07-23T18:08:23","slug":"a-personal-encounter-with-tommy-john","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandlotstats.com\/wp\/2013\/09\/20\/a-personal-encounter-with-tommy-john\/","title":{"rendered":"A Personal Encounter With Tommy John"},"content":{"rendered":"

This month I posted 2 blogs about Tommy John and Dr. Frank Jobe and why both should be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. After reading my posts, my wife, Tara, reminded me about the day our family met Tommy John.\u00a0Below is Tara\u2019s story about what happened that day.<\/em><\/p>\n

In 1987, when our younger son, Matt, turned ten, our gift to him was a ticket to attend Tommy John\u2019s Baseball Camp in New Jersey.\u00a0Even by ten, Matt loved playing and watching baseball and we knew this would be a special day for him.\u00a0We found out about the camp from my sister, Mavra.\u00a0When she was a young adult, she gave Tommy John\u2019s children horseback riding lessons.\u00a0She suggested we bring Matt to the camp and she would personally introduce him to Tommy John.<\/p>\n

The special day arrived.\u00a0We drove from CT to NJ and picked up my sister and headed over to the camp.\u00a0We stood in the registration line.\u00a0Tommy John was personally registering all of the children.\u00a0When it was our turn, he looked up, saw Mavra, jumped up and gave her a hug.\u00a0She introduced us and we asked if we could take pictures with him.\u00a0He said certainly as soon as all of the registrations were completed.<\/p>\n

True to his word, he came and found us and I started snapping pictures of him with my sons.\u00a0I suddenly looked down at the camera and realized to my utter shock, that there was no film in it!\u00a0I don\u2019t know where I found the courage, but I asked if I could leave, buy film and then reshoot the pictures.\u00a0I was mortified. He was so kind and said no problem.<\/p>\n

So, Stan and I left the camp and drove around until we found film.\u00a0When the camp day ended, Tommy John once again, extremely graciously, posed for pictures with my children. It was a day we all remembered for a variety of reasons.\u00a0Matt loved the camp.\u00a0Brad, Matt, and Stan were thrilled to meet one of their baseball heroes and I was overwhelmed with his patience and kindness.\u00a0What could have been a disappointing disaster turned into a day we never forgot and left us memories of a true gentleman and baseball hero \u00a0in all of our eyes.<\/p>\n

\"Tommy<\/p>\n

From left to right:\u00a0Brad Rothman, Matt Rothman, Tommy John, Mavra McCann, Stan Rothman<\/p>\n

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Martin Cobern said…<\/strong><\/p>\n

How quaint! Film!? What is that?<\/p>\n

September 20, 2013\u00a007:07:47<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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This month I posted 2 blogs about Tommy John and Dr. Frank Jobe and why both should be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. After reading my posts, my wife, Tara, reminded me about the day our family met Tommy John.\u00a0Below is Tara\u2019s story about what happened that day. In 1987, when our younger …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,46,1],"tags":[749,747,3,467,748,6,14,15,5,466,750],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandlotstats.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandlotstats.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandlotstats.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandlotstats.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandlotstats.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandlotstats.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":644,"href":"https:\/\/sandlotstats.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions\/644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandlotstats.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandlotstats.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandlotstats.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}