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 ...

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 ...

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 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, ...

More than 100 personal items from the Cincinnati Reds great, including rings, trophies and equipment, were part of the 17th Annual Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory Live Auction, hosted by Hunt ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...