Baseball's Bench hits Cooperstown course for a cause
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Baseball hall of famer Johnny Bench returned to Cooperstown Tuesday to host a charity golf tournament for a good cause.
Bench, who was the catcher for Cincinnati's Big Red Machine in the 1970s and is a 1989 inductee into the hall of fame, hosted the annual Seniors Open Pro-Am that raised more than $50,000 for a local charity.
The money will go to the Pathfinder Village in nearby Edmeston, a residential community for kids and adults with Down syndrome.
Bench says he was honored to be asked to host the event and become the latest in a long line of baseball legends to visit the village, a list that includes former Red Sox great Jim Rice.