Joe Pepitone RIP
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Joe Pepitone RIP
NY Yankee star on a lot of bad teams. Growing up in upstate NY when he played, I heard a lot about him, but I thought the best thing about him was his name.
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A former Cub, too: played for some solid teams on the North Side from 1970-1973.Joe Shlabotnik wrote: ↑March 13 23, 7:50 pmNY Yankee star on a lot of bad teams. Growing up in upstate NY when he played, I heard a lot about him, but I thought the best thing about him was his name.
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Didn't he go play in Japan?
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Yeah - and hated it. Said something like "They don't even speak english over there."
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Re: Joe Pepitone RIP
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Jim Bouton talked extensively about Pepitone in his 1970 book Ball Four. Pepitone is described as being extremely vain. Bouton said that Pepitone went nowhere without a bag containing hair products for his rapidly balding head. Pepitone even had two toupees, one for general wear and one for under his baseball cap, which he called his "game piece." Bouton told a humorous story about how the game piece came loose one day when Pepitone took off his cap for the U.S. national anthem.[citation needed]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_PepitonePepitone spent his days in Japan skipping games for claimed injuries only to be out at night in discos, behavior which led the Japanese to adopt his name into their vernacular—as a word meaning "goof off."[14]