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Graduated from the University of Illinois in 1932, he began his career as a publicist for the Cincinnati Baseball Club and sports writer for the Associated Press. He has been a former London and Washington correspondent for Associated Press and the New York Times, and headed the Washington Bureau of the Times before becoming vice president in 1969. Reston received a Doctor of Letters...
...Carew (.404), Tony Oliva (.329) and Harmon Killebrew (.319). The Baltimore Orioles are running away with their division on the strength of Frank Robinson's .378 average and Boog Powell's 13 home runs and 37 runs batted in. In the National League, the front-running Cincinnati Reds have already hammered out 67 home runs with Tony Perez leading the league in homers (17) and RBls (48). Even the New York Yankees, whose performance last season was one of their worst ever, are getting into the act. Their team average of .245 is a full 15 points higher...
These days no one laughs at the Cincinnati Reds' Johnny Lee Bench, not even when he says he is going to be baseball's first $100,000-a-year catcher. Instead, rival managers laud him shamelessly. Chicago's Leo Durocher: "Bench is the greatest catcher since Gabby Hartnett." Montreal's Gene Mauch: "If I had my pick of any player in the league, Bench would be my first choice." Los Angeles' Walter Alston: "He'll be the All-Star catcher for the next ten years." Just 22, Johnny Lee does not take the high...
...into their farm system. At Peninsula in the Carolina League, his uniform was retired after he broke the club's home-run record with 22 in 98 games. Moving up to Buffalo in 1967, he was named Minor League Player of the Year. The next season he became Cincinnati's No. 1 receiver and predicted that he would be the first catcher to win Rookie-of-the-Year honors. He did just that. Last year he knocked in 90 runs, hit .293 and was named the league's All-Star catcher. After a slow start, Bench...
...citation accompanying his honorary degree from the University of Cincinnati ticked off a singular list of occupations: "Delivery boy, dancing teacher, shoe salesman, soda jerk and amateur prizefighter-which last activity may share responsibility for his famous profile." Cracked Bob Hope, L.H.D.: "Who wrote that? Crosby...