Joeseph Benjamin Pignatano was born in Brooklyn NY on August 4, 1929. He would end up spending 38 years with baseball as his profession, 27 of those as a player or a coach in the Major Leagues. He was a member of two World Series Champions, the 1959 Dodgers as a player, and the 1969 Miracle Mets as a coach on Gil Hodge’s staff. Never a star, he was to most of us in LA when the Dodgers came west, John Roseboro’s back up. He did not play much, but he played hard when he did.
Born in Brooklyn, Piggy as he was called, always kept the borough as his home.