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Johnny must make a bench for woodshop class or he goes to summer school.
Mike Curkov covers the Johnny Bench Award catcher's clinic at Eck Stadium in Wichita.
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Findlay Market Opening Day Parade on April 5, 2010. Featuring: Johnny Bench (Grand Marshal) George Grande and Bronson Arroyo.
Johnny Bench knocks me down when I was 14 or 15 then gets mad at us when he finds us at the Town and Country Hotel in Hotel Circle in San Diego and refuses to sign for us but that was just the beginning of the story....Lots of players back then were, well, players in more than one way. We used to see Bench and other players at the hotel with young women. Pete Rose was notorious for that. I can't recall exactly if Bench was married, its been so long but we used to chuckle at the guys who we thought were fooling around. We always idolized Steve Garvey and Cindy, never thinking he would cheat on her. It ruined him.
Creque knows EVERYONE! and he once saw 27 bald eagles on the way to the grocery store.
Johnny Bench hits an inside the park home run at the polo grounds.
Johnny Bench being Interviewed about Pete Rose getting into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
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The holiday crowd at the Metrodome hadn't had much to cheer about on Memorial Day. The Minnesota Twins had been limited to two runs over the first eight innings by the Boston Red Sox and now the home team, trailing by four, was down to its last out
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Buck Afenir, University of Kansas;
Billy Alvino, High Point University;
Griffin Benedict, Georgia Southern University;
Dave Burkhart, Ohio State University;
Jeffrey Farnham, New Mexico State University;
Mark Fleury, University of North Carolina;
Chris
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University of North Carolina
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Go to opening day, including the parade.
Sign on to Redleg Nation. (this thread has the potential for the makings of a t-shirt as well)
The first thing to do is get a feel for Reds history. If that doesn’t get you excited, nothing will. So, the first
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Bronx Banter: You make the argument that Yogi was a better catcher than Johnny Bench. How close was Roy Campanella to Yogi during the Fifties? Was there any catcher even close to these two at the time?
Allen Barra: In Rio Bravo, Walter Brennan asks
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Sports Blogs
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OKLAHOMA CITY -- Oklahoma senior J.T. Wise is one of six catchers recently added to the official watch list for the 2009 Johnny Bench Award.
The award has been given out since 2000 to the nation's top catcher. Last year's award went to Florida State
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KOCO Oklahoma City
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...CITY -- Oklahoma senior J.T. Wise is one of six catchers recently added to the official watch list for the 2009 Johnny Bench Award. The award has been given out since 2000 to the nation's top catcher. Last year's award went to Florida State catcher Buster...
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KOCO Oklahoma City
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The watch list will be narrowed down to ten semifinalists, whom will be announced May 14, 2009. Statistics will be compiled on each of the semifinalists and sent to the national voting panel at the end of May for a vote to determine the three
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AUBURN, Ala. -
Sophomore catcher Tony Caldwell has been added to the official watch list for the 2009 Coleman Company-Johnny Bench Award delivered by Papa John's Pizza, it was announced on Monday by the Greater Wichita Area Sports Commission.
Caldwell
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The Auburn University Official Athletic Site
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Twenty-two catchers have caught 1,000 games before their 30th birthday. The list begins with Johnny Bench (1,498) and ends with Lance Parrish (1,039). Joe Mauer, newly 26 years old, is not yet on the list, and is still waiting to make his season debut.
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Baseball Prospectus
http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=8805
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Coming out of spring training, the Giants made the unorthodox decision to essentially carry only one catcher: Bengie Molina. I say "essentially," because as any halfway decent fantasy owner knows, starting third baseman Pablo Sandoval qualifies -- to
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Newsvine
http://bases.newsvine.com/_news/2009/04/23/2723178-bengie-molina-is-unfortunately-not-a-robot?category=sports
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praveen: Welcome Gene. After the overpaying of our Offensive Linemen, it is nice to see the Steelers pay big money to one of their elite players for a change this offseason. Harrison effectively gets a 50M over 5 year extension a year in advance.
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09105/962985-139.stm?cmpid=sports.xml
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Since the Rookie of the Year Award was first presented in 1947, 62 different players have won the award in the National League. Of those 62 players five were catchers. Here is a look at the five catchers who have been named Rookie of the Year.
Johnny
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Associated Content
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Minor League teams are known for their game-day promotions. On Tuesdays for the remainder of the season, we'll preview 10 of the best for the week ahead. If you'd like a particular promotion to be considered for this feature in the future,
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Minor League Baseball News
http://www.minorleaguebaseball.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090414&content_id=562073&vkey=news_milb&fext=.jsp
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My friend and fellow Seamheads writer Alfonso L. Tusa C. suggested we ask our friends around the Internet to recount their earliest baseball memories. Their responses were fantastic. Here is what we came up with:
Janette Garton: “My dad is a
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Sports Blogs
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The Greater Wichita Area Sports Commission on Tuesday added three catchers to the official watch list for the 2009 Coleman Company-Johnny Bench Award, delivered by Papa John's Pizza. Tennessee sophomore Blake Forsythe was among the additions. The
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WBIR
http://www.wbir.com/sports/story.aspx?storyid=83703&provider=rss
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April 1, 2009 - Texas League (TL) Midland RockHounds
One week from Thursday, the RockHounds will take the field in Little Rock, Arkansas for the start of the 2009 Texas League season. After a quick six game road trip the 'Hounds will return to
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Our Sports Central
http://www.oursportscentral.com/services/releases/?id=3798115
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Lobo Baseball vs. BYU Game Notes
Step 2 ... Win A Conference Championship (Work In Progress) ... Quick Notes About The Lobos (22-3, 3-0 MWC) ... The Lobos have tied their best start to the season at 22-3 with the 1973 team ... For
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Mountain West Conference Official Athletic Site
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Yellow Jacket catcher candidate for award recognizing nation's top senior student-athlete
Haniger has served as the baseball liaison on the Georgia Tech Student-Athlete Advisory Board the last two years, and has taken an active role in the
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Georgia Tech Official Athletic Site
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FAYETTEVILLE — Senior catcher Ryan Cisterna has been named to the Coleman Company-Johnny Bench Award delivered by Papa John’s Watch List it was announced by the Greater Wichita Area Sports Commission on Tuesday afternoon.
The Johnny Bench Award is
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Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
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...10 semifinalists on May 14 and three finalists are taken from that prestigious list on June 3. All three finalists for the Johnny Bench Award will be brought to Wichita, Kan., for a banquet on June 26 where the winner will be announced. For more information...
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Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
http://www2.arkansasonline.com/news/2009/mar/17/cisterna-named-johnny-bench-watch-list/
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The honor comes two years after Matt Wieters was a finalist for the award
Buck Afenir SR, University of Kansas
Billy Alvino SR, High Point University
Jeff Arnold JR, University of Louisville
Brett Basham SR, University of Mississippi
Matt Behren SR,
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Georgia Tech Official Athletic Site
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Here’s the discovery, and I found it because the numbers just jumped out. The 130 difference in runs saved on defense is exactly half of the 260 difference in runs scored. That’s exactly half. The implication is that defense is worth about half as much
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Baseball Think Factory
http://www.baseballthinkfactory.org/files/newsstand/comments/nytimes_cashman_takes_issue_with_book_anecdote_about_giambi_rr/
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My most recent offering at The Hardball Times takes a look at the career values of Mike Piazza (all hit), Ivan Rodriguez (all field), and Johnny Bench (a lot of each) -- good idea, Dan. To give away the punchline in the incessant Piazza vs. Bench
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Beyond the Box Score
http://www.beyondtheboxscore.com/2009/3/12/794703/my-most-recent-offering-at
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by Sky Kalkman
March 12, 2009
In case you missed it, Sean Smith introduced his historical WAR database last week, providing seasonal wins-above-replacement values for every significant player since 1955 (the retrosheet era). Since he was kind
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The Hardball Times
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/hardballtimes/~3/mZ_3yNBtnJE/
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CLEARWATER, Fla. -- The Cincinnati Reds haven't had a winning season since 2000. They haven't been to the World Series since they swept Oakland in 1990. In short, summers have been bleak this decade in the Queen City.
Those marvelous years of
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MLB.com
http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article_perspectives.jsp?ymd=20090309&content_id=3954440&vkey=perspectives&fext=.jsp&partnerId=rss_mlb
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On my way home from work tonight, the lovely J-Kerm called me to ask if I wanted to go out to dinner at a local Naperville establishment. J-Kerm, who has a sudden affinity for signing us up for every single e-mail club on the planet, had a coupon for a
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This post is Rob Neyer's fault and Josh Borenstein's fault. First, Mr. Neyer mentioned in his Wednesday Wangdoodles a facebook fad where kids (or people) were making lists of 25 things about themselves. His link list includes two bloggers who have
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Sports Blogs
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Johnny Bench's Opinion About Baseball And Modern Baseball Players And Reflection To His Playing Days Of Baseball. Alex Rodriguez Is Accused Of Using Steroids During His playing Years With The Texas Rangers.
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Is it just me, or does he sound like an economist?
It shows how much the Grammies love a story line more than the actual music. They love "roots music". Everyone loves to claim that they listen to music from exotic cultures in exotic places like
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Althouse
http://althouse.blogspot.com/2009/02/id-like-to-say-im-bewildered-in-old.html
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The 97-win Cardinals won the pennant easily, by nine games over the Giants. Chicago was third, Cincinnati 4th and Atlanta 5th. Pittsburgh was 6th, LA and Philly tied for 7th, the Mets 9th (their second time of not being last) and the Astros last with
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Earlier this week, the NY Post quoted Brian Cashman describing Jorge Posada as a "potential Hall of Fame candidate." That got me thinking about the legitimacy of that statement. On the surface, there's no question Posada has been a very good offensive
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Sports Blogs
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Cincinnati Reds History, Part XI: The Golden Age.
A new owner, a new GM, a fully functional farm system, a new stadium on the drawing board: that was the situation for the Reds in 1967. It begins a 15-year period that rates with the finest
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Sports Blogs
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...Johnny Bench to the list. Here’s Johnny Bench back in 1979, pitching Bazooka’s with his nephew Timmy. I remember Bubble Fudge. You want to know why Johnny Bench couldn’t blow a bubble with Bubble Fudge? It tasted like crap. Seriously - Bubble Fudge might...
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Home Run Derby
http://homerderby.com/archives/3248
Cincinnati Reds Hall of Famers Johnny Bench and Joe Morgan help Ellen "get" George Clooney on her show after months of trying to "trap" him. It was a PR coup for the Reds who enjoyed 17 minutes of airtime during Ellen's show today with Bench and Morgan proudly wearing their Reds uniforms. ... Cincinnati Reds Ellen George Clooney Johnny Bench Joe Morgan
Joe Morgan & Johnny Bench from the Cincinnati Reds visit the Ellen Show to help get George Clooney on the show on January 19, 2009
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