Were the 1970s golden age of catchers in MLB

The 70s were absolutely the golden age of facial hair in MLB.

Gary Carter.

DAMN.

You don’t hear about guys named Gary much anymore, or Leroy.

Munson doest belong with those guys ,, he was by all accounts a wonderful man which means more but all the others listed were better

And those great catchers CALLED the game, not a dugout dude - manager.

I’d rank em like this
Bench
Fisk
Carter
Munson
Simmons
Porter
Tenace
Yeager

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Fisk

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It's love to see him in today's game. With as long as he took stretching and fricking around for over a minute, he'd strikeout before he finally got in the box.

The correct answer to the question is yes but MLB has got some pretty good catchers right now. Baltimore's 2nd best prospect is being blocked by Adley.

You also had some crossover into 3+ years of the 80s with Fisk, Carter, Simmons, Santiago, Scioscia, and Steinbach. Tony Pena was pretty good too. After that it seems like there's less than a handful at any given time (ex. Alomar/Posada/I-Rod).

Now it's just a position of hitting buttons on your arm, a lot of ridiculous framing attempts, and how fast you can get the ball to 2nd. And then hitting. I think Adley is the one current exception to that standard.

Johnny Bench was the best. He was a Hall of Famer for sure his first year in the big leagues-- 1968.

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Johnny Bench was the best.

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First Class human being as well. Pete is a prick. I met both within the span of 3 hours about a decade ago and completely understood why Bench is leading the HOF block by the Veterans Committee.

Good list.

I think Bob Boone was top 10 in 70's and 80's. And Jim Sundberg. 13 gold gloves between these two.

For those interested, Jon Paul Morosi is doing a podcast series “Road to Cooperstown” where he interviews Hall of Famers. The first episode is out and is with Johnny Bench. I enjoyed it.