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The former pitcher is best known for the ligament-transplant surgery named for him, but the career that revolutionary procedure rescued was a great one. He won 288 games.

Tommy John is so intrinsically linked with the once-revolutionary, now-commonplace elbow surgery that bears his name that younger baseball fans might not realize he ranks among baseball’s all-time winningest pitchers.

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