As Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the U.S.A." returns to the Billboard Hot 100, the song ties as one of his longest-charting smashes on the competitive ranking.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. He was walking out and Bruce Springsteen was walking in. Joe DePugh, the Freehold, New Jersey native who inspired Springsteen's ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bruce Springsteen in 1984 — the year he had a hit with "Glory Days." - Credit: Ebet Roberts/Getty Images Joe DePugh, a ...

DePugh, who inspired Springsteen’s iconic song, has died from cancer at 75 years old. “Just a moment to mark the passing of Freehold [N.J.] native and ballplayer Joe DePugh,” Springsteen posted to his ...

Joe DePugh, the man who inspired Bruce Springsteen's 1985 hit "Glory Days," has died of cancer. He was 75 years old. "Just a moment to mark the passing of Freehold native and ballplayer Joe DePugh," ...

Bruce Springsteen will receive a prestigious honor from the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles this fall. The Boss will be presented with the inaugural Legacy Award at the museum’s fifth ...

Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere is not the Bruce Springsteen biopic many fans are going to want. It’s not a career-spanning survey. It’s not an epic tour through his life and music. It’s set ...

DePugh was a stand-out pitcher with a “speedball,” and he also played basketball. In baseball, he tried out for the Los Angeles Dodgers. Springsteen and DePugh were later part-time neighbors in Palm ...

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 ...

If Bruce Springsteen's song stands true, Joe DePugh was quite the baseball player back in his "Glory Days." DePugh, who inspired Springsteen's iconic song, has died from cancer at 75 years old. "Just ...

He was walking out and Bruce Springsteen was walking in. Joe DePugh, the Freehold, New Jersey native who inspired Springsteen's hit "Glory Days" after a chance encounter in their shared hometown, has ...