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 ...

A gifted athlete, he gave a clumsy teenage Bruce Springsteen his first nickname, Saddie. Years later, the Boss returned the ...

Bruce Springsteen paid tribute to former Little League pal Joe DePugh, who died in Florida of cancer at age 75. DePugh and Springsteen ran into each other at a bar in 1973, which inspired the hit ...

Joe DePugh, a high school friend of Bruce Springsteen forever immortalized in the 1984 hit 'Glory Days,' has died at age 75.

Bruce Springsteen recently took to Instagram to pay tribute to an old friend and inspiration of his 1985 hit “Glory Days.” “Just a moment to mark the passing of Freehold native and ballplayer Joe ...

Joe DePugh, the former Freehold, New Jersey baseball player who led a life that inspired Bruce Springsteen’s hit song Glory Days died at the age of 75.

Bruce Springsteen has paid an emotional tribute following the death of his high school friend who inspired 'Glory Days' following a bar conversation in 1973.

He could throw that speedball by you, make you look like a fool ... about the “Glory Days” story for future inclusion in the ...

‘He could throw that speedball by you, make you look like a fool ... “That’s who he has always been to me, my right fielder.” Listen to Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Glory Days’ Open the Youtube video ...

He could throw that speedball by you ... Days” story for future inclusion in the upcoming My Hometown: The Bruce Springsteen Story Center on Main Street in Freehold. The video of the chat ...