Lest We Forget: Joe DePugh

April 4, 2025 · 0 comments

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2025/04/04/multimedia/02DePugh--jgkm-print2/02DePugh--jgkm-print2-superJumbo-v2.jpg?quality=75&auto=webpWhat might have been.

From the New York Times obituary by Michael S. Rosenwald:

Joe DePugh, the Little League teammate of Bruce Springsteen who inspired the rocker’s hit song “Glory Days,” a rousing, bittersweet anthem to their hardscrabble childhoods in Freehold, N.J., where time passed by “in the wink of a young girl’s eye,” died on Friday in West Palm Beach, Fla. He was 75.

It never ceases to amaze me how quickly some of the notices are published. I know in the case of major celebrities, the media has these things prepped and ready to go, but all due respect to Joe DePugh, this was not a major celebrity.

 

 

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