Johnny Bench

One time baseball player, 2x MVP and World Series Champion, 3x father. #CatchEveryBall

[Rawlings Baseball @RawlingsSports]

Your 2026 Rawlings Gold Glove Award Winner - AL Catcher - Dillon Dingler

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[Rawlings Baseball @RawlingsSports]

Your 2026 Rawlings Gold Glove Award Winner - NL Catcher - Gabriel Moreno

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[RedsMuseum @RedsMuseum]

October 21, 1976: The Big Red Machine completed its sweep of the Yankees in the World Series with a 7-2 victory at Yankee Stadium. Johnny Bench hit two homers in the game and drove in five runs. His World Series performance earned him Series MVP honors. The 1976 Reds are the only team in major league history to go undefeated through an entire postseason.

Today In Reds History is presented by @PNCBank

[National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum ⚾ @baseballhall]

Fifty years ago today, @JohnnyBench_5 and the Big Red Machine became back-to-back champs.

The World Series MVP knocked two hits in each game – including a pair of homers in Game 4 – to power Cincinnati’s sweep. https://t.co/uyS6GhzXIH

[National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum ⚾ @baseballhall]

On this date in 1972, @JohnnyBench_5’s solo homer ignited a ninth-inning rally that would take its place among the many memorable moments authored by the Big Red Machine. https://t.co/y4ESBXxJcc

[Rawlings Baseball @RawlingsSports]

The 2026 Rawlings Gold Glove Award Finalists - AL Catcher - Dillon Dingler, Brandon Valenzuela, Austin Wells

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[Rawlings Baseball @RawlingsSports]

The 2026 Rawlings Gold Glove Award Finalists - NL Catcher - Freddy Fermin, Luis Torrens, Gabriel Moreno

#RawlingsGoldGloveAwards

[Rawlings Baseball @RawlingsSports]

Your 2026 Rawlings Gold Glove Award Finalists!

Winners will be announced on 11/1!

#RawlingsGoldGloveAwards

[RedsMuseum @RedsMuseum]

September 17, 1983: A sell-out crowd of 53,790 fans packed into Riverfront Stadium on Johnny Bench Night. Bench thrilled the crowd in the third inning by connecting for a home run. The round-tripper was the 389th and final home run of his Hall of Fame career and still stands as the Reds’ career franchise record.

Today In Reds History is presented by @PNCBank

[Johnny Bench @JohnnyBench_5]

The telegram Yogi Berra sent me when I broke his home run record.

“I ALWAYS THOUGHT THE RECORD WOULD STAND UNTIL IT WAS BROKEN.”

[National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum ⚾ @baseballhall]

When Johnny Bench passed Yogi Berra as the catcher with the most home runs in history, the Yankees great sent his congratulations as only he could: “I always thought the record would stand until it was broken.” https://t.co/mecDd7Kc8U

[RedsMuseum @RedsMuseum]

The 2026 Johnny Bench Award winners taking time to tour the museum and see the awards display. @JohnnyBench_5

[RedsMuseum @RedsMuseum]

A limited number of tickets are available for the 2026 edition of the @JohnnyBench_5 Awards Luncheon, an annual event featuring the Hall of Fame catcher honoring the best collegiate baseball and softball catchers of the year, as well as the top high school baseball and softball catchers from Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, and West Virginia. Details: https://t.co/mFZj2cUD6Z

[Cincinnati Reds @Reds]

Happy birthday to Reds Hall of Famer, nine-time All-Star, five-time Gold Glover and two-time World Series champion David Concepción!

[Baseball America @BaseballAmerica]

If there was one player who left the weekend looking every bit like a future top pick, it was Vahn Lackey.

The @GTBaseball catcher showed off exactly why it’s so easy to be enamored with his profile 👏

More here: https://t.co/PR1Rqe6eCH

[NCAA Softball @NCAASoftball]

The 2026 @NFCAorg Division I Freshman of the Year is ... Kendall Wells!

#NCAASoftball x @OU_Softball

[Oklahoma Softball @OU_Softball]

Brilliance Behind the Dish 💫

@KendallWells__ earns the second Diamond Sports/NFCA Catcher of the Year honor in program history!

[Johnny Bench @JohnnyBench_5]

Congratulations to this year's
Johnny Bench Award Winners

Top male NCAA baseball catcher
Vahn Lackey – Georgia Tech

Top female NCAA softball catcher
Kendall Wells – University of Oklahoma

Top high school catchers from Ohio
Brenna Fyffe, softball – Kenton Ridge
Lucas Flack, baseball – Delaware Hayes

Top high school catchers from Kentucky
Alivia Cooper, softball – Bullitt East
Camden Tiemeier, baseball – Campbell County

Top high school catchers from Indiana
Jayden Stephens, softball – Edgewood
Sean Dunlap, baseball – Crown Point

Top high school catchers from West Virginia
Olivia Masoner, softball – University
Zaden Ranson, baseball – Charleston Catholic

[National Fastpitch Coaches Association @NFCAorg]

Another addition to the trophy case 🏆

Congratulations to the 2026 @DiamondSportsCo / NFCA NCAA DI Catcher of the Year, @OU_Softball's Kendall Wells! 🥎

🔗https://t.co/vxb0o51be1

[Georgia Tech Baseball @GTBaseball]

𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧𝐧𝐲 𝐁𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐡 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐖𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐫

@LackeyVahn has been named the best catcher in Division I

GT has now won three Johnny Bench Awards, the most of any program in the nation.

📰 https://t.co/OGUys3huLt

#StingEm🐝 x #CatcherU