Joe DePugh, a grade-school friend of Bruce Springsteen forever immortalized in his 1984 hit “Glory Days” as the baseball player who “could throw that speedball by you,” died of cancer in Florida. He ...

Thanks to Bruce Springsteen, Joe DePugh’s glory days never really passed him by. DePugh, who helped inspire “Glory Days” — Springsteen’s rollicking, yet bittersweet ode to youthful memories on his ...

So many of Bruce Springsteen’s songs tell stories of regular people and offer observations of everyday life. Blue-collar factory workers facing a dead-end future just aching to break out of their ...

Bruce Springsteen’s 1985 track, “Glory Days”, is about as Bruce Springsteen-y as it gets. All-American imagery, pretty women, a little bit of booze, a certain “devil-may-care” je ne sais quoi—it’s the ...