In his career, Bench earned 10 Gold Gloves, was named to the National League All-Star team 14 times, and won two Most Valuable Player Awards.

The eight players most frequently referenced as members of the Big Red Machine include baseball's all-time hit leader in Rose ; three Hall of Fame players in Bench, Peréz and Morgan ; six National League MVP selections ; four National League home run leading seasons ; three NL Batting Champions ; 25 Gold Glove winning seasons, and 63 collective All-Star Game appearances.

He was selected to his ninth straight MLB All-Star Game, which tied the all time record set by Johnny Bench.

In 2004, he was selected to the MLB All-Star Game for the 11th time in his career and for his 10th time as a starting player, joining Johnny Bench and Mike Piazza as the only Major League Baseball catchers to start an All-Star game 10 times or more in their career.

Koosman would be named to the 1968 Topps All-Star Rookie Roster and finish runner-up to Johnny Bench for the National League Rookie of the Year honors.

He represented the Mariners in the 1983 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, where he pitched a scoreless 8th inning facing Johnny Bench, Darrell Evans and Pedro Guerrero.

He finished behind Johnny Bench in the MVP selection.

Johnny Lee Bench ( born December 7, 1947 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma ) is a former professional baseball catcher who played in the Major Leagues for the Cincinnati Reds from 1967 to 1983 and is a member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

Bench won the National League Rookie of the Year Award, batting. 275 with 15 home runs and 82 RBIs, marking the first time the award had been won by a catcher.

Bench had another strong year in 1972, again winning the Most Valuable Player Award and leading the National League in home runs ( 40 ) and RBI ( 125 ), to help propel the Reds to another National League West Division title, and a five-game victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 1972 National League Championship Series.

In 1973, Bench slumped to 25 home runs and 104 RBI, but helped the Reds rally from a 10 1 / 2 game deficit in July to the Los Angeles Dodgers to win a major league-high 99 games and claim another National League West Division.

Bench was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, in 1989 alongside Carl Yastrzemski.

The earliest evidence of human activity in the area which is now Mount Rainier National Park is a projectile point dated to circa 4, 000-5, 800 BP ( before present ) found along Bench Lake Trail ( the first section of Snow Lake Trail ).

A fairly obvious comparison of opposing backstops was made to Reds manager Sparky Anderson during the post-World Series press conference, to which, Anderson responded, " Munson is an outstanding ballplayer and he would hit. 300 in the National League, but you don't ever compare anybody to Johnny Bench.

As Opposition Front Bench Spokesman on Scottish Affairs, Taylor said in November 1974 that a general directive to the National Coal Board should follow the guidelines of the Social Contract in any wage settlement.

The court house is a National Historic Site of Canada and one of the longest operating courthouses in Canada, as it continues to be used for the Court of Queen's Bench of New Brunswick.

Until the career of Johnny Bench, Hartnett was considered the greatest catcher in the history of the National League.

Amery went on to criticise the whole conduct of the war to date, and called for formation of a truly National Government and a small War Cabinet ( similar to that of World War I under Lloyd George ), and for a change of personnel ( his final quote was directed against the Government Front Bench ).

Hall of Fame inductee Lou Brock found Grote to be one of the most difficult catchers on which to attempt a stolen base, and though Hall of Fame catcher Johnny Bench was the perennial Gold Glove winner during their careers in the National League together, Bench once said of Grote, " If Grote and I were on the same team, I would be playing third base.

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Image: Bench mark at Saint Goussaud, Limousin, France, by Institut Geographique National. jpg | Bench mark at Saint Goussaud, Limousin, France, by Institut Géographique National.

Bench had 2048 hits for a. 267 career batting average with 389 home runs and 1, 376 RBI during his 17-year Major League career, all spent with the Reds.

Bench was also elected to the Major League Baseball All-Century Team as the top vote-receiving catcher.

A few of the many Carolina League players who have gone on to star in the Major Leagues are: Johnny Bench ( Peninsula, 1966 ), Wade Boggs ( Winston-Salem, 1977 ), Barry Bonds ( Prince William, 1985 ), Rod Carew ( Wilson, 1966 ), Dock Ellis ( Kinston, 1965 ), Dwight Evans ( Winston-Salem, 1971 ), Dwight Gooden ( Lynchburg, 1983 ), Andruw Jones ( Durham, 1996 ), Chipper Jones ( Durham, 1992 ), Willie McCovey ( Danville, 1956 ), Joe Morgan ( Durham, 1963 ), Dave Parker ( Salem, 1972 ), Tony Pérez ( Rocky Mount, 1962 ), Andy Pettitte ( Prince William, 1993 ), Jorge Posada ( Prince William, 1993 ), Darryl Strawberry ( Lynchburg, 1981 ), Bernie Williams ( Prince William, 1988 ), and Carl Yastrzemski ( Raleigh, 1959 ).

Major League Baseball Hall of Fame catcher Johnny Bench grew up in Binger.

* Johnny Bench, a former Major League Baseball player for the Cincinnati Reds from 1967 to 1983

The Emmy Award winning series ran for five seasons and featured The Famous Chicken as the comic foil to Bench as he attempted to mentor a fictional baseball team of Little League aged children.

In 1995, Johnson's reputation as a skilled defensive player was solidified when he became the fourth catcher in Major League history to win a Gold Glove Award in his rookie season, joining Johnny Bench, Carlton Fisk and Sandy Alomar, Jr.

( 1847-1909 ) was a prominent English barrister, King's Counsel and Master of the Bench of Gray's Inn, who was also a Methodist minister, founder of the Pentecostal League of Prayer, and author of 34 Christian books.

Although he was often overshadowed by his contemporary, Johnny Bench, Simmons is considered one of the best hitting catchers in Major League baseball history.

Bench led the Reds to the world championship and was awarded the World Series Most Valuable Player Award for his performance.

He came in third in the Most Valuable Player voting behind Billy Williams and winner Johnny Bench, his Cincinnati Reds teammate who had one of the best offensive seasons in the history of catchers that year (. 293 / 45 / 148 ), in addition to winning a Gold Glove.

Most recently, the band's music was featured in “ Responsible Ballet and What We Need Is a Bench to Put Books On ”, a dance piece choreographed by Jon Kinzel, and performed at The Kitchen in New York City.

Presenters on Cork's Red FM include Seamus Barry, Gemma Murphy, Jason, Ailish and Mick Mulcahy ( The Red Rooster ), Caroline Murphy ( The Weekend Rooster ), Dave Mac Ardle ( Red Drive ), Philip Bourke ( The Red Zone, Dance On Red ), Stevie G ( The Hit List, Black On Red ), Ruairi O ' Hagan and Joe Harrington ( The Big Red Bench ), Victor Barry ( Cork Talks Back ), Jonathan Gold ( Senior Daytime Producer ) ex UK's Pennine FM / Juice FM, Claire O ' Dwyer ( The Saturday Show and Most Wanted ), Greg Dowling and Shane Johnson ( Go Deep )

In 1495, Basel was incorporated in the Upper Rhenish Imperial Circle ; the Bishop of Basel was added to the Bench of the Ecclesiastical Princes.

Bench played baseball and basketball and was class valedictorian at Binger High School in Binger, Oklahoma.

Bench was drafted 36th overall by the Cincinnati Reds in the second round of the 1965 amateur draft, playing for the minor-league Buffalo Bisons in the 1966 and 1967 seasons before being called up to the Reds in August 1967.

During a spring training game in 1968, Bench was catching the eight-year veteran right-hander Jim Maloney.

Bench was the Reds ' catcher on April 30, 1969 when Maloney pitched a no hitter against the Houston Astros.

At the post-World Series press conference, Reds manager Sparky Anderson was asked by a journalist to compare Munson with his catcher, Johnny Bench.

Three years earlier, Bench had been inducted into the Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame in and his uniform # 5 was retired by the team.

As part of the Golden Anniversary of the Rawlings Gold Glove Award, Bench was selected to the All-Time Rawlings Gold Glove Team.

In a September interview with Heidi Watney of the New England Sports Network, Johnny Bench, who was watching a Cleveland Indians / Boston Red Sox game at Fenway Park, did an impression of late Chicago Cubs announcer Harry Caray after Red Sox third baseman Kevin Youkilis, a native of Cincinnati, made a tough play.

Bench was fitted with a Stryker ceramic hip and has since become a spokesman for the company.

The young Owain ap Gruffydd was possibly fostered at the home of David Hanmer, a rising lawyer shortly to be a justice of the Kings Bench, or at the home of Richard FitzAlan, 3rd Earl of Arundel.

Again in 2011 a public interest litigation petition caused the Madras High Court Bench to grant permission to villagers of Kodaioor village to conduct a rooster fight during Deepavali coinciding with a local temple festival from the claims that the " villagers ' religious sentiments would be hurt if the cockfight was not allowed ".

This was further undermined by the ruling in Beckford v Hood, where the Court of King's Bench confirmed that, even without registration, copyright could be enforced against infringers.

After consulting with the judges of the King's Bench, Common Pleas and Exchequer of Pleas, the Lords concluded that there was no copyright at common law-certainly not perpetual copyright-and as such, that the term permitted by the Statute of Anne was the maximum length of legal protection for publishers and authors alike.

But Whitelocke J, speaking for the Court of the King's Bench, said that because the water supply was contaminated, it was better that the neighbor's documents were risked.

Members of Parliament then explained in August 1689 that “ the Commons had a particular regard … when that Declaration was first made ” to punishments like the one that had been inflicted by the King's Bench against Titus Oates.

This bill was supported by some of the most able and learned men in England, including the Earl of Northumberland, the Bishop of Lincoln, the Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, the Attorney General for England and Wales, the Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, and the Chief Justice of the King's Bench.