Johnny Bench

Staying at one club for 17 seasons is not something that most baseball players achieve, but Johnny Bench is an exception. Between 1967 and 1983, he played with the Cincinnati Reds of the National League, where he earned himself the reputation of being arguably the finest catcher of all time.

Throughout his career, Bench popularized the one-handed catching style and went on to win ten consecutive Golden Glove Awards as part of the Big Red Machine, the Reds team that dominated the National League in the mid-1970s. Unsurprisingly, he was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1989, after his retirement. He was a fourteen-time All-Star Player.