PALM BEACH GARDENS, Florida – When ex-con ballplayer Harry Decker invented the first catcher’s mitt around the time pitchers started throwing overhand in the 1880s, it didn’t look like much more than ...

CINCINNATI — Hall of Famer Johnny Bench apologized for an antisemitic comment made at an event to honor former Cincinnati Reds general manager Gabe Paul, who was Jewish, and others. Bench made the ...

Cincinnati Reds legend Johnny Bench apologized Sunday for an antisemitic joke he made during a team event the previous day. The Reds were holding a news conference for team Hall of Fame inductions for ...

Boston Red Sox legend Luis Tiant, one of MLB's best and most recognizable pitchers, died Tuesday, the league announced. Another giant of the game, MLB Hall of Famer and longtime Cincinnati Reds ...

CINCINNATI, Ohio (CCU Athletics) - Coastal Carolina catcher Caden Bodine won the Johnny Bench Award presented by MSA Sport as the Top Male NCAA Catcher, the Cincinnati Reds announced Thursday. The ...

WAS 3.8%, COVERING YOUR COMMUNITY, SOME ICONIC FORMER BASEBALL PLAYERS SPENDING TIME ON THE PUTTING GREEN RATHER THAN THE BASEBALL DIAMOND HALL OF FAME CATCHER JOHNNY BENCH HOSTED A CHARITY GOLF ...

CINCINNATI — Fifty-four years ago, in Puerto Rico, a young real-estate entrepreneur from Philly met a baseball player hoping to make the big leagues. Johnny Bench would go on to be one of the greatest ...

Johnny Bench made an Anti-semitic joke when the Reds honored former general manager Gabe Paul at the team’s Hall of Fame induction news conference on Saturday. During the ceremony, Reds legend Pete ...

Former Reds manager Sparky Anderson famously said, "I don't want to embarrass any other catcher by comparing him to Johnny Bench." Well, the comparisons will continue until the end of time. After all, ...

The recent deaths of baseball greats Lou Brock, Tom Seaver and Al Kaline got Johnny Bench thinking about the future and the prospect of unloading memorabilia from his Hall of Fame career. He had seen ...

Rob Manfred hasn’t been lauded for many decisions during his reign as MLB commissioner, but he definitely has a fan in Johnny Bench for implementing the pitch clock. The pitch clock has been great for ...