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I saw this story.

It was a couple of weeks ago we had Johnny Bench on the best catcher in history two time

world series champ and Johnny was going to auction off a lot of his items.

And I think what we think and when I was growing up, I thought Johnny Bench and Pete Rose

and Joe Morgan and Tony Peret, they must be as rich as anybody in the country because

they played for the big red machine and they won world series titles.

And then you realize what they got paid when they were playing is a whole lot different

than what these athletes are getting paid now.

And you know, I was a little bit sad that Johnny had to, you know, auction off his items.

You're talking about MVP won the MVP a couple of times.

There are other things that gold gloves in there.

And I saw the story Todd goes, Hey, Johnny's going to keep all of his memorabilia and I go,

ladies, not going to auction it and he goes, no, somebody bought all of it and gave it back

to him.

I said, well, we got to have Johnny on because talk about a financial angel there and Johnny

Bench joining us on the program.

When did you hear about it?

What was your reaction when you got, you know, most of your memorabilia back?

I think auction was on Saturday and then on Monday, David Hunt from one auction called

me and said it was a great auction and everything else is sitting down and I said, yeah, he said,

well, there's a guy that does, must have been remain anonymous and he said, but he bought

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