Pinelli wrote an article for The Second Fireside Book of Baseball, titled "Kill the Umpire?

Ruth turned to the umpire and bellowed, "There's forty thousand people in this park that know that was a ball, tomato-head!"

His final game as a home plate umpire provided an extraordinary capstone to his career.

Pinelli later recalled that after the game, he returned to the umpires' room and burst into tears.

Hodges recalled that Pee Wee Reese expressed the opinion that Pinelli was the umpire least likely to throw a player out.