inside knowledge" gained both through experience and "an awful lot of study and experimentation." Personal life In March 1941, Maglie eloped with Kay Pileggi, whom he had dated for a while; the couple was married in a Catholic ceremony in May of that year. They adopted a boy, Sal Jr., in 1955, and another son, Joseph, in 1963, after Sal Sr. had finished his first coaching stint with the Red Sox. Kay suffered a return of cancer that year (she had undergone surgery to treat it in 1958) and died four years later, in 1967. The pitcher remarried in 1971, to Doris, becoming the stepfather of her daughter Holly. During the 1950s, Maglie lived in Riverdale, The Bronx. During the 1970s, Maglie was employed by a wholesale liquor distributor as a salesman. Later in the decade, he worked for the Niagara Falls Convention Bureau as their membership coordinator. He retired in 1979. A lover of Italian food, Maglie's favorite restaurant in Niagara Falls was the Como Restaurant, where he was a frequent customer. Golf was a hobby of his in retirement, and he would sign autographs at card shows and pitch in old-timers' games. Joseph, his second son, was a member of the United States Air Force. Following Maglie's first wife's death, his son, Sal Jr., struggled with drug addiction and depression. When the younger Sal died in 1985, his adoptive father's health suffered. Sal Sr. had recovered from a near-fatal brain aneurysm suffered in 1982, but following a 1987 stroke, he moved into the Niagara Falls Memorial Nursing Home. He lived for five more years before dying on December 28, 1992, due to bronchial pneumonia complications. See also List of Major League Baseball annual ERA leaders List of Major League Baseball annual wins leaders List of Major League Baseball no-hitters References Bibliography Further reading External links 1917 births 1992 deaths American people of Italian descent Baseball coaches from New York (state) Baseball players from New York (state) Boston Red Sox coaches Brooklyn Dodgers players Buffalo Bisons (minor league) players Cleveland Indians players Drummondville Cubs players Elmira Pioneers players Jamestown Falcons players Jersey City Giants players Deaths from pneumonia in New York (state) Major League Baseball pitchers Major League Baseball pitching coaches National League All-Stars National League ERA champions National League wins champions New York Giants (NL) players New York Yankees players Sportspeople from Niagara Falls, New York St. Louis