Joe Pepitone, a New York Yankees shooting star, dies at age 82
He helped the Yankees to their second straight World Series title in1962, a team led by Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris and Elston Howard. Pepitone drew attention for his off-the-field conduct. In a time when most players were staid and conformist, Pepitone was thought to be the first to bring a hair dryer into the clubhouse,He posed nude for a January 1975 edition of Foxylady magazine.
Pepitone’s 1975 autobiography, “Joe, You Coulda Made Us Proud,” detailed nightlife with Frank Sinatra, smoking marijuana with Mantle and Whitey Ford and Pepitone’s jailing at Rikers Island.