Joe DePugh and Bruce Springsteen played baseball as teens in New Jersey. A chance meeting at a bar inspired Springsteen's ...

Bruce William Smith, a dentist, philanthropist, and AIDS activist, has died at 74. He was a community hero known for his compassion and courage.

A gifted athlete, he gave a clumsy teenage Bruce Springsteen his first nickname, Saddie. Years later, the Boss returned the favor, memorializing him in a song.

Joe DePugh, a high school friend of Bruce Springsteen forever immortalized in the 1984 hit 'Glory Days,' has died at age 75.

Bruce Springsteen paid tribute to former Little League pal Joe DePugh, who died in Florida of cancer at age 75. DePugh and ...

Joe DePugh, the former Freehold, New Jersey baseball player who led a life that inspired Bruce Springsteen’s hit song Glory ...

Joe DePugh, a childhood friend Bruce Springsteen wrote about in the 1985 hit 'Glory Days,' died in 2025 at the age of 75.

Bruce Springsteen has paid tribute to Joe DePugh, the New Jersey pitcher who inspired his hit song “Glory Days,” following ...

If Bruce Springsteen’s song stands true, Joe DePugh was quite the baseball player back in his “Glory Days.” DePugh, who ...

Few pass rushers in history were better than former Buffalo Bills player Bruce Smith. He's creating an entirely different ...

Patti Smith never planned to front a rock band. In 1971, when the music producer and manager Sandy Pearlman approached her ...

Bruce Springsteen has been added to the big People ... and benefit nonprofit organizations dedicated to music education.