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Johnny Bench
*How to Be Proactive Instead of Reactive
*Custom Tailoring Your Education
*How to Regulate Your Mental Diet
*How to Take a Pass on Pity Parties
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*Disney's Flight for Success
*How to Take Risks Wisely
*How to Not Let Up When You Have Been Let Down
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia...
Johnny Lee Bench
(born
December 7
,
1947
) is a former
American
Major League Baseball
player for the
Cincinnati Reds
from
1967
to
1983
. He is widely regarded as being among the greatest
catchers
in baseball history.
[
attribution needed
]
[
citation needed
]
He is currently on the Board of Directors for the
Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame
.
Bench, a 14-time
All-Star
selection and the
National League's
Most Valuable Player
in the
1970
and
1972
seasons, was a key member of the
"The Big Red Machine"
, the Reds teams of the 1970s which won six division titles and
World Series
championships in
1975
and
1976
.
Professional career
Johnny Bench played baseball and
basketball
and was class
valedictorian
at
Binger High School
in
Binger, Oklahoma
, formerly known as Hoss Spit Flats. His father told him that he felt that the fastest route to becoming a major leaguer was as a catcher. Bench was drafted thirty-sixth overall by the
Cincinnati Reds
in the second round of the
1965
amateur draft
and was called up in August
1967
. He hit
.163
, but impressed many with his defense and strong throwing arm. Among them:
Hall of Famer
Ted Williams
. Williams signed a baseball for him which predicted that the young catcher would be "A Hall of Famer for sure!"
[
citation needed
]
Williams' prediction eventually became fact with Johnny Bench's election to the Hall of Fame in
1989
.
During a spring training game in
1968
, the brash Johnny Bench was catching the eight-year veteran right-hander
Jim Maloney
. Once a noted hard thrower, injuries had reduced Maloney's fastball's speed dramatically by this time. However, Maloney insisted on repeatedly "shaking off" his younger catcher and throwing the fastball instead of the
breaking balls
Bench called for. An exasperated Bench bluntly told Maloney, "your fastball's not popping". Maloney replied with an epithet. To prove to Maloney that his fastball wasn't effective anymore, Bench called for a fastball, and after Maloney released the ball, Bench dropped his catcher's mitt and comfortably caught the fastball barehanded.
[
1
]
The Cincinnati Reds were supposed to move to open the
1970
baseball season in
Riverfront Stadium
, but a harsh winter the year before led to delays in readying the new multi-purpose facility. Thus, the Reds played the first half of the season at
Crosley Field
, their home since
1912
. On
June 24
, the last home game at Crosley was played against the visiting
San Francisco Giants
. The home team was trailing 4-3 in the home half of the eighth inning, when Johnny Bench tied the game with a solo home run against future
Hall of Fame
right-hander
Juan Marichal
. The next batter,
first baseman
Lee May
, hit a solo
home run
for the eventual game-winner. Afterwards, there was a brief ceremony, part of which entailed
Mayor
Gene Ruehlmann taking home plate out of the ground and being transported via
helicopter
to
Riverfront Stadium
and installing home plate there. After a road trip to
Houston
,
Texas
, the Reds returned to Cincinnati and played their first game at the new stadium against the visiting
Atlanta Braves
on
June 30
,
1970
.
Bench praised the character of Crosley Field, but also said he wouldn't miss the fact that when it rained, the field would get very saturated.
1970
was Bench's finest statistical season; he hit .293 with 45 home runs and
drove in
148. He hit .267 with 389
home runs
and 1,376 RBIs during his 17-year Major League career, all spent with the Reds. His career home runs by a catcher record stood until surpassed by the former
New York Mets
catcher
Mike Piazza
.
Bench won the
1968
National League
Rookie of the Year Award
, batting .275 with 15 home runs and 82 RBIs, and the honors and accomplishments only continued to pile up. In his career, Bench earned 10
Gold Gloves
, was the
1970
and
1972
Most Valuable Player
and was named to the National League
All-Star
team 14 times. He also won such awards as the
Lou Gehrig
Award (
1975
), the
Babe Ruth
Award (
1976
), and the
Hutch
Award
(
1981
). His most dramatic home run
[
citation needed
]
was likely his ninth inning lead-off opposite field home run in the final game of the
1972
NLCS vs. Pittsburgh. The solo shot tied the game 3-3, allowing the Reds to win later in the inning on a wild pitch, 4-3. It was hailed after the game as "one of the great clutch home runs of all time."
[
citation needed
]
Although baseball history is filled with many outstanding catchers, such as
Yogi Berra
,
Bill Dickey
,
Gabby Hartnett
and
Mickey Cochrane
, arguably, no player revolutionized the position like Johnny Bench.
[
citation needed
]
The catcher's equipment was traditionally called "the tools of ignorance" as many catchers lacked the fielding skills or quickness to play elsewhere. But Bench, who was big (6'1" and 210 pounds) and athletic, inspired many young ballplayers to become catchers and teams began seeking and developing more athletic ballplayers for the position.
[
citation needed
]
Although not the first to use it, Bench popularized the hinged
catcher's mitt
.
[
citation needed
]
Randy Hundley
of the
San Francisco Giants
is credited as actually being the first player to use it in a game, but the success Bench had in his career after adopting it in after a stint on the disabled list in
1966
for a thumb injury on his throwing hand allowed Bench to tuck his throwing arm safely to the side when receiving the pitch. By the turn of the decade, the hinged mitt became standard catchers' equipment.
Having huge hands (a famous photograph features him easily holding seven baseballs in his right hand
[1]
), Bench also tended to block breaking balls in the dirt by scooping them with one hand instead of the more common and fundamentally proper way: dropping to both knees and blocking the ball using the chest protector to keep the ball in front.
[
citation needed
]
By the latter part of his career, Johnny Bench was being compared to the greatest catchers in baseball history, but the years behind the plate began taking their toll on his knees, which is a common ailment for catchers.
[
citation needed
]
For the last three seasons of his career, Bench caught only 13 games and played mostly
first base
or
third base
.
The Cincinnati Reds proclaimed
September 17
,
1983
"Johnny Bench Night" at
Riverfront Stadium
. During the game he hit his 389th and final home run. He retired at the end of the season.
Honors and post-career activities
Johnny Bench was elected to the National
Baseball Hall of Fame
in
Cooperstown
,
New York
in
1989
. He was elected in his first year eligible and appeared on 96% of the ballots, the third-highest ever at the time.
Three years earlier, Bench had been inducted into the
Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame
in
1986
and his uniform #5 was retired by the team. Ironically, the number was worn by another Reds catcher,
Willard Hershberger
, and was retired after his
suicide
in August
1940
. Later that year, the Reds won their second World Series, which holds the distinction of being, to date, the only World Series in which the Reds won the deciding game in Cincinnati. The Reds reactivated the #5 uniform in 1942.
In
1985
, Bench starred as Joe Boyd/Joe Hardy in a Cincinnati stage production of the musical
Damn Yankees
, which also included
Gwen Verdon
and
Gary Sandy
.
He also hosted the television series
The Baseball Bunch
from
1982
to
1985
. A cast of children, both boys and girls, from the
Tucson
,
Arizona
area would learn the game of baseball from Bench and current and retired greats.
The Chicken
provided comic relief and former
Los Angeles Dodgers
manager
Tommy Lasorda
appeared as "The Dugout Wizard".
In
1999
, Bench ranked Number 16 on
The Sporting News
'
list of the 100 Greatest Baseball Player. He was the highest-ranking catcher. Bench was also elected to the
Major League Baseball All-Century Team
.
Starting with the
2000
college baseball
season, the best collegiate catcher annually receives the
Johnny Bench Award
. The most recent winner was
Buster Posey
of
Florida State University
, who is currently in the farm system of the
San Francisco Giants
. Notable winners include
Kelly Shoppach
of
Baylor University
,
Ryan Garko
of
Stanford University
, and
Kurt Suzuki
of
Cal State Fullerton
. Shoppach and Garko are currently teammates on the
Cleveland Indians'
roster (Garko has been converted to a
first baseman
), and Suzuki plays for the
Oakland Athletics
.
In
2008
, Bench co-wrote the book
Catch Every Ball: How to Handle Life's Pitches
with
Paul Daugherty
. It is published by Orange Frazer Press. A "
1979 called
Catch You Later
was authored by Bench with William Brashler.
Like many retired players, Bench has broadcast games on
television
and
radio
. He is an avid
golfer
, and he has performed in several
Champions Tour
tournaments.
In a September
2008
interview with
Heidi Watney
of the
New England Sports Network
, Johnny Bench, who was watching a
Cleveland Indians
/
Boston Red Sox
game at
Fenway Park
, did an impromptu impression of late
Chicago Cubs
announcer
Harry Caray
after
Red Sox
third baseman
Kevin Youkilis
, a native of
Cincinnati
, made a tough play to throw out the
Indians'
Victor Martinez
at
first base
.
Knuckleballer
Tim Wakefield
was on the mound for the Red Sox and Bench related a story that then-Reds manager
Sparky Anderson
told him that he was thinking of trading for knuckleballer
Phil Niekro
. Bench replied that Anderson had better trade for Neikro's catcher, too.
[2]
Hip replacement
In
2004
, Johnny Bench received a
total hip replacement
after his natural
hip
had worn down to
bone-on-bone
and gave him constant pain. The condition resulted from the repetitious squatting and rising during the course of his twenty-year-plus baseball career. Bench was fitted with a
Stryker
ceramic hip and has since become a spokesman for the company.
However, Stryker hip patients have complained about problems resulting from their implants including pain, difficulty walking and squeaky joints, and some have had pieces of implant parts break off or wear down unevenly.
[
2
]
The company was sent two warning letters by the
Food and Drug Administration
regarding ceramic hip replacements.
Bench, who says he has experienced some squeaking, quipped, “I don’t care if it plays "
Dixie
".
[
3
]
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