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Joseph Anthony Pepitone (October 9, 1940 – March 13, 2023) was an American professional baseball first baseman and outfielder who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees, Houston Astros, Chicago Cubs, and Atlanta Braves from 1962 to 1973 and for the Yakult Atoms of Nippon Professional Baseball in 1973.
Joe Pepitone: Retired New York (New York City) September 17, 1986 (convicted) Possession of Quaaludes, possession of drug paraphernalia 6 months imprisonment Pepitone was sentenced to two concurrent sentences of six months. [290] Luis Polonia: New York Yankees: Wisconsin (Milwaukee County) August 21, 1989 (plea) Sexual intercourse with a child
Former Bronx Bomber Joe Pepitone, in an upstate federal court complaint, claims legendary teammate Mickey Mantle used one of his loaned bats to smack historic home run No. 500 — and now he wants ...
He beat the St. Louis Cardinals 2–1 with a complete-game six-hitter on October 10 on a walk-off home run by Mickey Mantle, then won again on October 14 at Busch Stadium, 8–3, backed by another Mantle homer and a Joe Pepitone grand slam. [7] [8] He was 2–1 with a 1.48 ERA in three career World Series starts. [5] Bouton in 1963 with the ...
Joe Pepitone later joked that Linz should have brought a piano along on the bus so he would have made even more money. [19] In the earliest known preserved segment [34] of color video from The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson, Carson devotes a significant portion his monologue to the incident, including a direct jab at CBS. [35]
The following is a list of players, both past and current, who appeared in at least one game for the New York Yankees franchise, including the 1901–02 Baltimore Orioles, and the 1903–12 New York Highlanders.
The 1963 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1963 season.The 60th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff that matched the American League (AL) champion and two-time defending World Series champion New York Yankees against the National League (NL) champion Los Angeles Dodgers; the Dodgers swept the Series in four games to secure their ...
Pepitone spent his days in Japan skipping games for claimed injuries only to be at night in discos, behavior which led the Japanese to adopt his name into their vernacular—as a word meaning "goof off." [28] In 1974, the 6 feet 7 inches (2.01 m) MLB home run slugger Frank Howard joined the Taiheiyo Club Lions at age 37. In his first regular ...