Jim Bouton, in his groundbreaking 1970 book 'Ball Four' that revealed the inner working of baseball teams, recounted how 'Pepitone took to wearing the hairpieces when his hair started to get thin on top. I´d walk in with a black Nehru jacket on, beads, my hair slicked back it was ridiculous. 'When I brought the hair dryer into the clubhouse, they thought I was a hairdresser or something they didn´t know what the hell was going on, you know?' 'Things were a little different back then, sure,' Pepitone told Rolling Stone in 2015. He posed nude for a January 1975 edition of Foxylady magazine. 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, an artifact later given to the Baseball Reliquary and displayed at the Burbank Central Library in California during a 2004 exhibition: 'The Times They Were A-Changin´: Baseball in the Age of Aquarius.' Pepitone drew attention for his off-the-field conduct.

Left to right, New York Yankees' Roger Maris, Mickey Mantle and Pepitone pose for a photo

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