RIP Joe Pepitone

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Originally Posted by Cliff Bowman

I don’t know which one is the best story, the brushback pitch to Pepitone from Denny McLain after the gift home run pitch to Mickey Mantle in 1968, the word ‘Pepitone’ becoming vernacular for ‘goof-off’ in Japan after his fake injury antics there in 1973, or getting cut by the Padres in Spring Training in 1975 after instinctively protecting his toupee rather than trying to field a bad hop ground ball.

Don’t forget the chin music from Kramer at the Yankee fantasy camp.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7vqJ-WSC-QI


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