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 — 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Former Cincinnati Reds and Big Red Machine great Johnny Bench said he was brought to tears by a friend who bought more than $1 million of the National Baseball Hall of Famer's memorabilia at auction ...

CINCINNATI (FOX19) - A large collection of Johnny Bench’s awards, World Series rings and more have finally been auctioned off. However, the most important items will soon be back with the Reds legend, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Johnny Bench is a married man. The Cincinnati Reds legend married for a fifth time in March, he confirmed on The Enquirer's ...

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 ...

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 ...