Talkin’ Sports and Baseball

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Greetings and welcome to the Orthopedic and Sports Medicine issue of MD-Update

Our cover story on J. Anthony O’Daniel, Jr., MD, comes at a time when the tragic turmoil in Afghanistan is unfolding. Dr. O’Daniel served our country there, treating US soldiers as well as NATO and Afghani military and “civilians who were caught in the crossfire.” I invite you to read his story on page 10.

Signs that semi-normal life is returning to Kentucky include a return to high school and college sports. In conversations with many of our orthopedic and sports medicine doctors over the years, I have noticed that an active role in athletics is a common theme. Many of them played some kind of sport. Some visited the orthopedic doctor with a broken bone or torn cartilage or tendon. That experience often nurtured a goal of becoming the doctor who fixed up athletes.

Inside this issue, I invite you to read the stories of Drs. Anthony O’Daniel, a member of the karate team at the U.S. Naval Academy, Jeff Selby, who played soccer and pitched in baseball; Todd Hockenbury, gymnast; and Kevin Magone, a former quarterback.

Update on Chandler Dunn

We’ve always been a baseball family. For as long as I can remember, back to 1955, we followed the Baltimore Orioles because our roots were in Baltimore and we grew up on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.

I’m very blessed that my son Chandler has a passion for baseball and I get to watch him play. As anyone who follows baseball knows, the game will break your heart as well as give you untold joy and exhilaration.

Chandler’s baseball journey was through the Cal Ripken Youth Baseball organization, ending with the Cal Ripken World Series in Aberdeen, Maryland. Then he played for Henry Clay High School in Lexington.

Chandler had his own experience with orthopedic surgery and physical therapy in 2019 with a labrum repair, then in the spring of 2020, a PRP injection for a bicep tear.

I’m happy to report that one of the highlights of this summer was the Commonwealth Collegiate Baseball League All Star game. In a Field of Dreams moment, Chandler hit a grand slam home run in the 9th inning with the score tied at 5-5 at Whitaker Ball Park.

I hope that every athlete and every athlete’s parent has felt the joy we felt at that moment. I’d be interested in hearing your story.

Until October and the Cancer Care issue, all the best,

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Volume 11, Number 4

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