# Joe Pepitone

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American baseball player (1940–2023)

Baseball player

Joe Pepitone Pepitone at the 2009 Yankees' Old-Timers' Day First baseman / Center fielder Born: (1940-10-09)October 9, 1940 Brooklyn, New York, U.S. Died: March 13, 2023(2023-03-13) (aged 82) Kansas City, Missouri, U.S. Batted: Left Threw: Left Professional debut MLB: April 10, 1962, for the New York Yankees NPB: June 20, 1973, for the Yakult Atoms Last appearance MLB: May 25, 1973, for the Atlanta Braves NPB: August 19, 1973, for the Yakult Atoms MLB statistics Batting average .258 Home runs 219 Runs batted in 721 NPB statistics Batting average .163 Home runs 1 Runs batted in 2 Stats at Baseball Reference Teams New York Yankees (1962–1969) Houston Astros (1970) Chicago Cubs (1970–1973) Atlanta Braves (1973) Yakult Atoms (1973) Career highlights and awards 3× All-Star (1963–1965) 3× Gold Glove Award (1965, 1966, 1969)

**Joseph Anthony Pepitone** (October 9, 1940 – March 13, 2023) was an American professional baseball [first baseman](/source/First_baseman) and [outfielder](/source/Outfielder) who played in [Major League Baseball](/source/Major_League_Baseball) (MLB) for the [New York Yankees](/source/New_York_Yankees), [Houston Astros](/source/Houston_Astros), [Chicago Cubs](/source/Chicago_Cubs), and [Atlanta Braves](/source/Atlanta_Braves) from 1962 to 1973 and for the [Yakult Atoms](/source/Tokyo_Yakult_Swallows) of [Nippon Professional Baseball](/source/Nippon_Professional_Baseball) in 1973. Pepitone was a three-time [MLB All-Star](/source/Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game) and won three [Gold Glove Awards](/source/Gold_Glove_Award).

## Early life

Pepitone was born in [New York City](/source/New_York_City), in the borough of [Brooklyn](/source/Brooklyn), and raised in the [Park Slope](/source/Park_Slope) neighborhood. He had two younger brothers. Pepitone attended [Manual Training High School](/source/Manual_Training_High_School).[1]

Pepitone was shot by a classmate at age 17 while at school. He did not press charges against the shooter. In the same week, his father died from a stroke at age 39.[2]

## Baseball career

### New York Yankees

Pepitone in the 1960s

In August 1958, Pepitone signed with the [New York Yankees](/source/New_York_Yankees) as an amateur [free agent](/source/Free_agent). He played in 16 games for the [Auburn Yankees](/source/Auburn_Doubledays) of the Class D [New York–Pennsylvania League](/source/New_York%E2%80%93Penn_League) after signing.[1]

After playing four seasons in the [minor leagues](/source/Minor_leagues), Pepitone broke in with the New York Yankees in 1962, playing behind [Moose Skowron](/source/Bill_Skowron) at [first base](/source/First_base). He batted .239 in 63 games in 1962.[1] Yankees management believed he could handle the first base job and traded Skowron to the [Los Angeles Dodgers](/source/Los_Angeles_Dodgers) before the 1963 season. Pepitone batted .271 with 27 [home runs](/source/Home_run) and 89 [runs batted in](/source/Runs_batted_in) (RBIs) in 1963. In the [1963 World Series](/source/1963_World_Series), he committed a costly [error](/source/Error). With the score tied 1–1 in the seventh inning of Game Four, he lost a routine [Clete Boyer](/source/Clete_Boyer) throw in the white shirtsleeves of the Los Angeles crowd, and the batter, [Jim Gilliam](/source/Jim_Gilliam), went all the way to [third base](/source/Third_base) and scored the Series-winning run on a sacrifice fly by [Willie Davis](/source/Willie_Davis_(baseball)). In 1964, Pepitone batted .251 with 28 home runs and 100 RBIs.[1] In the [1964 World Series](/source/1964_World_Series) against the [St. Louis Cardinals](/source/St._Louis_Cardinals), he hit a [grand slam](/source/Grand_slam_(baseball)) in Game 6,[3] but the Yankees lost the series.[1]

Pepitone batted .247 in 1965 and .255 in 1966, as the Yankees finished 70–89 in last place. He batted .251 in 139 games in 1967 and .245 in 108 games in 1968.[1] Pepitone began to feud with the Yankees in 1969, leaving the team without permission for two days in August.[4] He batted .242 with 27 home runs in the 1969 season.[1]

### Later career

After the 1969 season, despite having won his third [Gold Glove Award](/source/Gold_Glove_Award), the Yankees traded Pepitone to the [Houston Astros](/source/Houston_Astros) for [Curt Blefary](/source/Curt_Blefary).[5] Unhappy with how he was treated by the Astros, he threatened to retire in July 1970.[6] The Astros sold Pepitone to the [Chicago Cubs](/source/Chicago_Cubs) on [waivers](/source/Waivers_(baseball)) a week later.[7] In Chicago, Pepitone replaced [Ernie Banks](/source/Ernie_Banks) at first base. Pepitone retired in May 1972,[8] but returned to the Cubs after a few weeks away from the team.[9] The Cubs traded Pepitone to the [Atlanta Braves](/source/Atlanta_Braves) for [Andre Thornton](/source/Andre_Thornton), and cash considerations on May 19, 1973.[10] In Atlanta, he played only three games, after which he announced his intention to retire.[11]

Pepitone then announced his intention to continue his career in Japan.[12] In June 1973, Pepitone accepted an offer of $70,000 ($508,000 today) a year to play for the [Yakult Atoms](/source/Tokyo_Yakult_Swallows) in [Nippon Professional Baseball](/source/Nippon_Professional_Baseball)'s [Central League](/source/Central_League).[13] In July, he returned to the United States.[14] While in Japan, he hit .163 with one [home run](/source/Home_run) and two RBIs in 14 games. Pepitone spent his brief career in Japan skipping games for claimed injuries only to be seen out at night in [discos](/source/Disco), behavior which led the Japanese to adopt his name into their [vernacular](/source/Vernacular) as a word meaning "goof off".[15]

## Life after baseball

### Memoirs

[Jim Bouton](/source/Jim_Bouton) wrote about Pepitone in his 1970 book *[Ball Four](/source/Ball_Four)*. Bouton said that Pepitone went nowhere without a bag containing hair products for his rapidly balding head and that he took to wearing [toupees](/source/Hair_piece).[16]

In January 1975, Pepitone published his own tell-all baseball memoir, titled *Joe, You Coulda Made Us Proud.* The book received substantial attention for its many revelations, particularly about his abusive father and his self-lacerating candor about his self-destructive ways. Later that year, he posed nude for *Foxy Lady* magazine, featuring full frontal nudity.[17]

### Professional softball career

The American Professional Slo-Pitch League (APSPL) was the first of several [men's professional slow-pitch softball](/source/Men's_professional_softball_in_the_United_States) leagues formed in the United States during the late 1970s and early 1980s. It built on the growth and talent in the booming men's amateur game during this period.[18][19][20]

Pepitone joined the [Trenton Statesmen](/source/Trenton_Statesmen) of the APSPL, and put up respectable numbers in 1978 (110–225, .489, 14 HRs, 61 RBIs) and 1979 (50–122, .410, 9 HRs, 30 RBIs). The [Detroit Caesars](/source/Detroit_Caesars) offered $30,000 to the Statesmen to buy Pepitone's contract in 1978.[21] That offer was rejected.[22] After the Trenton franchise disbanded in 1979, Pepitone became the team president and first baseman for [Chicago Nationwide Advertising](/source/Chicago_Nationwide_Advertising) of the North American Softball League (NASL) during their 1980 season.[23][24] Pepitone was suspended for six games by NASL Commissioner Robert Brown for "conduct detrimental to professional softball"[25] and was out for the season in August with a thigh injury.[26] The Yankees then hired him as a minor league hitting instructor at the end of the NASL season, bringing his professional softball career to a close.[27]

### MLB coaching

In October 1980, Pepitone was hired as a minor league hitting coach with the Yankees[27] and brought to the major league club in June 1982.[28] He was replaced by [Lou Pinella](/source/Lou_Pinella) in August of that summer.[29] After Pepitone was sent to prison, Yankee owner [George Steinbrenner](/source/George_Steinbrenner) re-hired him in 1988 as part of a [work-release](/source/Work_release) program to serve in the development of minor league players.[30] Pepitone received a 1999 [World Series ring](/source/World_Series_ring) for his relationship with the Yankees. He subsequently sold that ring at auction.[31]

## Personal life

Pepitone and two other men were arrested in Brooklyn on March 18, 1985, after being stopped by the police for running a red light.[32] The car contained nine ounces of [cocaine](/source/Cocaine), 344 [quaaludes](/source/Methaqualone), a [free-basing](/source/Freebase_(chemistry)) kit, a pistol, and about $6,300 in cash.[33] Pepitone denied knowing there were drugs and guns in the vehicle.[34] He spent four months at [Rikers Island](/source/Rikers_Island) jail in 1988 for two [misdemeanor](/source/Misdemeanor) drug convictions.[32]

In January 1992, Pepitone was charged with misdemeanor assault in [Kiamesha Lake, New York](/source/Kiamesha_Lake%2C_New_York), after a scuffle police said was triggered when Pepitone was called a "has-been." He was arraigned in town court and released after he posted $75 bail.[35] In October 1995, the 55-year-old Pepitone was arrested and charged with [driving while intoxicated](/source/Driving_while_intoxicated) after losing control of his car in New York City's [Queens–Midtown Tunnel](/source/Queens%E2%80%93Midtown_Tunnel). Police found Pepitone bloodied, disoriented, and mumbling as he walked through the tunnel. Authorities charged Pepitone with drunken driving after he refused to take a sobriety test.[36] Pepitone pleaded guilty. When asked if he was staying away from alcohol, Pepitone responded, "I don't drink that much."[37]

Pepitone was married three times, all ending in divorce. He had five children.[1]

On March 13, 2023, Pepitone died of a suspected heart attack at his home in [Kansas City, Missouri](/source/Kansas_City%2C_Missouri), at the age of 82.[38]

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1. **[^](#cite_ref-13)** ["Pepitone's a Hero in His Tokyo Debut Before 40,000 – New York Times article, June 24, 1973"](https://www.nytimes.com/1973/06/24/archives/pepitones-a-hero-in-his-tokyo-debut-before-40000.html). *[The New York Times](/source/The_New_York_Times)*. June 24, 1973. Retrieved March 13, 2023.

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## Sources

### Books

- Bouton, Jim, and Leonard Shecter. *Ball Four; My Life and Hard Times Throwing the Knuckleball in the Big Leagues*. New York: World Pub. Co., 1970. 400 pages. ([ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-9709117-0-X](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-9709117-0-X))

- Pepitone, Joe, and Berry Stainback. *Joe, You Coulda Made Us Proud*. Chicago: Playboy Press, 1975. 246 pages. ([ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-87223-428-2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-87223-428-2))

- Pepitone, William A., and Joseph V. *Soul of a Yankee: The Iron Horse, the Babe and the Battle for Joe Pepitone*. Morrisville, North Carolina: Self-Published through lulu.com, 2011. 130 pages. ([ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-55774-941-7](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-55774-941-7))

### Newspapers

- [Yanks Harvest Bumper Farm Crop; Well-Balanced Array of Minor Leaguers Aids Champions All-Star Rookie Cast Includes Sons of Keller, Tresh – Mike Tresh's Son on List – New York Times article, January 3, 1962](https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0F17F6385B127A93C1A9178AD85F468685F9)

- [BROOKLYN TALENT AT YANKEE CAMP; Pepitone Stands Out – New York Times article, February 8, 1962](https://www.nytimes.com/1962/02/08/archives/brooklyn-talent-at-yankee-camp-pepitone-stands-out-among-3-from-old.html)

- [YANKEE ROOKIES RATED BEST EVER; Houk Praises Tresh, Gibbs, Linz, Pepitone and Keller – New York Times article, February 25, 1962](https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0E17FE3F5910728DDDAC0A94DA405B828AF1D3)

- [Mantle, Boyer Hit Homers As Yanks Top Orioles, 4–1; Yanks Turn Back Orioles, 4 to 1, On Homers by Mantle and Boyer – New York Times article, March 11, 1962](https://www.nytimes.com/1962/03/11/archives/mantle-boyer-hit-homers-as-yanks-top-orioles-41-yanks-turn-back.html)

- [Sports of The Times; Overheard at the Stadium – Time Marches On – Nuisance Hitter – The Hollywood Touch – New York Times article, April 11, 1962](https://www.nytimes.com/1962/04/11/archives/sports-of-the-times-overheard-at-the-stadium-time-marches-on.html)

- [The Joe Pepitone Prayer: Don't Let Me Die in Japan; For 12 years—from 1962 – Joe Pepitone played first and outfield for the New York Yankees, Houston Astros and Chicago Cubs – New York Times article, May 19, 1974](https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F20A17F93E5814728DDDA00994DD405B848BF1D3)

- [PEPITONE ARRESTED ON DRUG CHARGES – New York Times article, March 20, 1985](https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50915F83D5C0C738EDDAA0894DD484D81)

- [Pepitone Is Indicted – New York Times article, May 4, 1985](https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE5DA173BF937A35756C0A963948260)

- [SPORTS PEOPLE; Pepitone Trial Starts – New York Times article, August 27, 1986](https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0DE4DE1E3EF934A1575BC0A960948260)

- [PEPITONE IS GUILTY OF LESSER CHARGES – New York Times article, September 18, 1986](https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50717FE385D0C7B8DDDA00894DE484D81)

- [PEPITONE SENTENCED TO SIX MONTHS IN JAIL – New York Times article, October 23, 1986](https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50715FF3D5F0C708EDDA90994DE484D81)

- [Pepitone to Begin 6-Month Jail Term – New York Times article, May 17, 1988](https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0717F83D550C748DDDAC0894D0484D81)

- [Pepitone Is Released – New York Times article, September 15, 1988](https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE5DC133AF936A2575AC0A96E948260)

- [SPORTS PEOPLE: BASEBALL; Pepitone Is Arrested – New York Times article, October 26, 1995](https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C00E6D71639F935A15753C1A963958260)

## External links

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v t e American League First Baseman Gold Glove Award 1958: Power 1959: Power 1960: Power 1961: Power 1962: Power 1963: Power 1964: Power 1965: Pepitone 1966: Pepitone 1967: Scott 1968: Scott 1969: Pepitone 1970: Spencer 1971: Scott 1972: Scott 1973: Scott 1974: Scott 1975: Scott 1976: Scott 1977: Spencer 1978: Chambliss 1979: Cooper 1980: Cooper 1981: Squires 1982: Murray 1983: Murray 1984: Murray 1985: Mattingly 1986: Mattingly 1987: Mattingly 1988: Mattingly 1989: Mattingly 1990: McGwire 1991: Mattingly 1992: Mattingly 1993: Mattingly 1994: Mattingly 1995: Snow 1996: Snow 1997: Palmeiro 1998: Palmeiro 1999: Palmeiro 2000: Olerud 2001: Mientkiewicz 2002: Olerud 2003: Olerud 2004: Erstad 2005: Teixeira 2006: Teixeira 2007: Youkilis 2008: Peña 2009: Teixeira 2010: Teixeira 2011: González 2012: Teixeira 2013: Hosmer 2014: Hosmer 2015: Hosmer 2016: Moreland 2017: Hosmer 2018: Olson 2019: Olson 2020: White 2021: Gurriel 2022: Guerrero Jr. 2023: Lowe 2024: Santana 2025: France

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