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 ...

DePugh and Springsteen ran into each other in 1973 outside a bar in Neptune City, N.J. Over a decade later, “Glory Days” hit the airwaves.

Joe DePugh, the Freehold, New Jersey native who inspired Springsteen's hit “Glory Days” after a chance encounter in their shared hometown, has passed away. He was 75. DePugh died after a bout with ...

Springsteen and DePugh were later part-time neighbors in Palm Beach County in Florida. DePugh lived in a condo in Lake Worth, ...

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

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

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.

He could throw that speedball by you, make you look like a fool — Glory Days my friend,” Springsteen said. Yes, that Joe DePugh — a King’s College graduate and the topic of one of ...