Joe DePugh and Bruce Springsteen played baseball as teens in New Jersey. A chance meeting at a bar inspired Springsteen's ...

Bruce Springsteen paid tribute to former Little League pal Joe DePugh, who died in Florida of cancer at age 75. DePugh and ...

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

If Bruce Springsteen’s song stands true, Joe DePugh was quite the baseball player back in his “Glory Days.” DePugh, who ...

DePugh lived in a condo in Lake Worth, and Springsteen owns a home in Wellington. He was walking out and Bruce Springsteen ...

Joe DePugh, a former New Jersey high school baseball star known for his association with one of musician Bruce Springsteen's ...

Mega star Bruce Springsteen’s high school friend, Joe DePugh, died this week and “The Boss” issued a statement on social ...

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

Joe DePugh apparently had quite the arm when he took the mound as a kid. His fastball would blow by hitters and, boy, make ...

In 1973, when they had been out of touch for years, two boyhood friends bumped into each other at a roadside bar near the Jersey Shore. Bruce Springsteen was walking in; Joe DePugh was walking out.

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 ...

Bruce Springsteen has paid tribute to Joe DePugh, the New Jersey pitcher who inspired his hit song “Glory Days,” following ...