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twinsfan -> RE: Twins 2023 Season and Game Day Thread (10/6/2023 10:35:07 AM)
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ORIGINAL: MDK
Johnny Bench was and is an idiot. Maybe a great player but an idiot. Remember reading an SI story about Bench. It was his wedding night. Honeymoon in the motel.....he had his buddies over and they played poker all night long. New wife was ignored.
From Wikipedia
Bench has been married four times. Once hailed as "baseball's most-eligible bachelor," he shed that distinction before the 1975 season when he married Vickie Chesser, a toothpaste model who had dated Joe Namath. Four days after they met, Bench proposed, and they were married on February 21, 1975.[68][69] Quickly, the pair realized they were incompatible, especially after Bench suggested that his wife accept Hustler magazine's offer for her to pose nude for $25,000.[70][71] They broke up at the end of the season (Bench reportedly said to her, "Now I'm done with two things I hate: baseball and you"), divorcing after just 13 months. "I tried. I even hand-squeezed orange juice," Chesser told Phil Donahue in December 1975. "I don't think either of us had any idea what marriage was really like." After returning to Manhattan, Chesser said, "Johnny Bench is a great athlete, a mediocre everything else, and a true tragedy as a person."
I think he played ping-pong.
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