Sort of. “I couldn’t run fast enough. I’d flop,” Johnny Bench said. “I wasn’t really sliding. I was just flopping.” A few years later, of course, Rose and Bench would be superstar teammates – Bench ...

“I couldn’t run fast enough. I’d flop,” Johnny Bench said. “I wasn’t really sliding. I was just flopping.” A few years later, of course, Rose and Bench would be superstar teammates ...