Joe, You Coulda Made Us Proud

By Joe Pepitone

Book Overview

At age seventeen Joe Pepitone signed with the New York Yankees, and soon experts were predicting that he would be the team's next superstar. He could run, throw, and field, and he had a sweet home run... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• ISBN: B0017KWT9M
• Release Date: January 1975
• Publisher: Dell
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.

Customer Reviews

What a Book!

I read it in high school more than 25 years ago and I still remember it well. This is the perfect compliment to Jim Bouton's "Ball Four." Meet the mob, Frank Sinatra, and more. How many books have a chapter called "When fu & & ing couldn't compare to baseball"?

In a category by itself .... "Instant Replay it ain't!"

After having heard about this book in 'wink-wink-hush-hush' contexts over the past twenty years or so, I finally saw a copy on the "N - O - P" shelf of a liquidator of estate sales. The first time in a while I didn't even attempt to barter, for fear of losing this putative gem, at the one chance I had to grab it - I felt like I'd won the lottery, and hadn't even paid for it yet. Just what kind of "Estate" must this have been from!?! So, I bought it ("No bag, please.") and began reading on the sidewalk, on my way back from lunch. Quite a book, this is. It made me laugh, it made me cry, it made me look around my commuter-rail car to see if anyone had kepped to what I was reading and emoting about. Oh Joe, Joe, JOE @!#$ & ^@%#%$(!@%#* Indeed, you coulda made us more than proud.If you're a baseball fan, and you want a book to memorize, this is one of the very best.

Joe, you gotta do a sequel!

I love this book! I still pick it up and read a chapter at a time.I still have my original copy of this book. I pass it around all the time. I recommend it to all baseball fans, but especially anyone who is Italian or anyone who has grown up in NYC. A true gem if you want to recall the craziness of being a youth in NYC.

Great baseball reading!

I read this book 20 years ago, the first time, read it again recently, great baseball book,tells so much about the on field/off field adventures of this Yankee great. Meant more to me after meeting Joe Pepitone, who I found to be a very fine individual. Would reccommend this book to any baseball fan, especially Yankee fans.

very real inside look at pro baseball players behavior

i read this book about 22 years ago and i was very surprised at some of my baseball idols behavior on and off the field. at that time i thought pro players were god, came to the ballpark to play and then went home and led a normal family life.