If Bruce Springsteen’s song stands true, Joe DePugh was quite the baseball player back in his “Glory Days.” DePugh, who inspired Springsteen’s iconic song, has died after a battle with cancer at 75 ...

DePugh was a stand-out pitcher with a “speedball,” and he also played basketball. In baseball, he tried out for the Los Angeles Dodgers. Springsteen and DePugh were later part-time neighbors in Palm ...

DePugh, who inspired Springsteen’s iconic song, has died from cancer at 75 years old. “Just a moment to mark the passing of Freehold [N.J.] native and ballplayer Joe DePugh,” Springsteen posted to his ...

Thanks to Bruce Springsteen, Joe DePugh’s glory days never really passed him by. DePugh, who helped inspire “Glory Days” — Springsteen’s rollicking, yet bittersweet ode to youthful memories on his ...

Joe DePugh, the Little League teammate of Bruce Springsteen who inspired that rocker’s hit song “Glory Days,” a rousing, bittersweet anthem to their hardscrabble childhoods in Freehold, New Jersey, ...

He was walking out and Bruce Springsteen was walking in. Joe DePugh, the Freehold, New Jersey native who inspired Springsteen's hit “Glory Days” after a chance encounter in their shared hometown, has ...