Posted on 05/04/2021 5:51:48 AM PDT by nycteacher
Johnny Bench remembers them well.
They were his peers, his idols, his friends.
And now they are gone, 10 greats from the Baseball Hall of Fame, lost in a terrible stretch of just over a year — more death for the game’s hallowed hall than at any similar span in its 85-year history.
Ten greats, who now exist only in memories: at bat, in the field and in the dugout.
During a year of widespread misery, and in a world still struggling against a virus that has killed millions, how do we make sure that these players are not forgotten? There is no one better than Johnny Bench to help us commemorate their lives.
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No runs, no drips, no errors when painting Johnny’s bench.
>>And now they are gone, 10 greats from the Baseball Hall of Fame, lost in a terrible stretch of just over a year — more death for the game’s hallowed hall than at any similar span in its 85-year history.
there is a quickening as people get older.
None of us are here forever, none of us get out of here alive.
Johnny Bench is 73. Why would he be surprised that people who are his age or older are dying?
I grew up in Cincinnati hanging on every game the Big Red Machine played. Looking back, I was very, very fortunate.
I have met pretty much the entire team and meeting each one was a thrill. I have also been lucky enough to attend the Reds Fantasy Camp and hang out with a few of the Machine players. So much fun!
Johnny Bench was one of my football coach’s cousins from Oklahoma. After he received the MVP for the World Series in 1970 he took time to chill out....he visited his cousin for several days and during that time accompanied him to our football practices. Coach Carpenter let Bench coach the LB on our HS football team. How many people can say that Bench was a LB coach for a HS team? I didn’t have a clue on how special that situation was having Bench as a LB coach (Bench was a good FB player also).
MLB itself has passed away.
Pete Rose is still.................oh, wait................
Its much worse that baseball is dying, not elderly men.
I was at Dodger Stadium on a rare occasion: Johnny Bench committed Catcher’s Interference to lose the game.
My feelings exactly. The woke MLB will not get another dime nor any attention from me.
Pretty much. I still have a love of MLB history, and I have been in search of a MLB simulator to play all-time greats and past favorites against each other to get my baseball fix. I couldn’t tell you who the stars are from the past 5-10 years.
“...none of us get out of here alive.”
So true.
Yep, as far as I am concerned they are all dead now (to me). Their wokeness was bad enough, but interfering in a state's attempt to ensure honest elections was the last straw.
The memory of listening to AM radio at night pulling in games from the Midwest just made me smile. As America ages it’s now on the other side of getting better with age. I think the demise of baseball is a good metaphor with the demise of America.
August 26, 1939, the first televised Major League baseball game is broadcast on station W2XBS, the station that was to become WNBC-TV. Announcer Red Barber called the game between the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, New York. At the time, television was still in its infancy.
My thoughts exactly! Rose belongs in the HOF!
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