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Johnny Bench sings Jim Croce's 'You Don't Mess Around With Jim' on 'Hee Haw' in 1973

Hall of Famer and former Reds great Johnny Bench talks about being named one of MLB's Franchise Four Greatest Living Players.

A 1973 brawl between the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees - the archrivals Major League Baseball announced Tuesday will meet next June in London in the first regular-season games ever played in Europe - is considered by many to be the biggest fight ever between the two teams. But no known video of it exists because 1973.

Fortunately, video from Hall of Fame catcher and former Cincinnati Reds great Johnny Bench's appearance earlier the same year on "Hee Haw" - singing Jim Croce's "You Don't Mess Around With Jim" - does exist, and it's remarkable.