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Player: Tommy John

Each week I look back through my baseball card collection and remember past Bombers and memorable moments.

  • Set: 1981 Topps
  • Card #: 550
  • Type: Base

The most famous elbow in the history of baseball settled into his seat at Gate B-5 of Phoenix’s Sky Harbor Airport. Then, his phone rang.

At that time I had a side hobby of tracking down past Yankees to interview them for a Yankees blog I started. As you might expect, the household names were difficult to find, but the White Pages proved surprisingly useful for finding guys like Bobby Richardson, Steve Balboni, and Cliff Johnson.