The surgeon who helped save the life of Royals manager Ned Yost knew nothing of the 63-year-old’s stature.
She knew nothing about his lifelong career in baseball or how he made his livelihood or even that he’d won a World Series championship two years earlier.
As she operated on him for more than two hours in November at Grady Memorial Hospital in November, all she knew was a group of trauma specialists had brought him back from the brink of death. It was now up to her to put him back together.
Mara Schenker and her team inserted rods, attached plates and drilled screws into his shattered pelvis.