John Joseph Montefusco Jr. (born May 25, 1950), nicknamed "the Count", is an American former professional baseball player and coach.

[4] He is one of only a handful of pitchers to do so, and is one of two players to both hit a home run in his first at bat and win the Rookie of the Year Award.

[6] In June 1980, Montefusco got into a fight with Giants manager Dave Bristol after defeating the rival Los Angeles Dodgers.

[2] In October 1997, Montefusco was arrested and charged with beating his former wife of 23 years Doris,[9] whom he had recently divorced, in her Colts Neck Township home.

In 2001, Anne Elise Thompson, a U.S. district judge in Trenton, New Jersey, dismissed the lawsuit, ruling that being compared to Simpson is not defamation.

[16][15] At the time of his October 1997 arrest, Montefusco had been a pitching instructor for the Tampa Yankees, a minor league team.

[11] He later spent several years as the pitching coach for the Somerset Patriots in the independent Atlantic League of Professional Baseball until resigning in September 2005.