Johnny Bench

JOHNNY BENCH, Hall of Fame catcher, when asked what were his most memorable career statistics:

Some minds are steel traps. My mind is a lint trap, retaining only useless fluff, so that I know why .406 is important, but not why 1066 is. If you were to remove, with a flourish, the top of my head—like the silver...

After a season of tinkering, ESPN's K-Zone was in postseason form on last week's Sunday Night Baseball. K-Zone, a box that outlines a batter's strike zone, was used to masterly effect by analyst Joe Morgan to...

The first three letters of the word notwithstanding, there's very little fun in fundamentals. Still, the creators of Baseball Bunch, a half-hour TV program that aired in the early '80s, made learning the game's...

Who'da thunk Cincinnati's Big Red Machine was really a printing press? Hot on the heels of last year's Baseball for Dummies, by Joe Morgan, comes Johnny Bench's The Complete Idiot's Guide to Baseball. What's next,...