Local baseball icon Pignatano dead at 92
Former Dodgers player and Mets coach enjoyed historic run
Joe Pignatano was at the center of it all, be it in Brooklyn, Queens or Los Angeles.
The former Major League catcher and Mets pitching coach died Monday at the age of 92.
Pignatano, who was born and raised in our borough and graduated Westinghouse High School before cracking the big leagues as a catcher for the Dodgers in 1957, passed at a nursing home in Naples, Florida after suffering from dementia.