Career
He helped Emporia State to the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics World Series twice as a player. After playing briefly in as a shortstop in the Washington Senators system (hitting 174/309/207 in 34 games for the 1971 Geneva Senators), he was head coach at his alma mater, Kansas State Normal School/Emporia State from 1973 to 1987. From 1988 to 1995, he was at the University of Kansas, leading the Kansas Jayhawks baseball team to the 1993 College World Series.
In 2004 he was an assistant coach at the University of New Mexico for the New Mexico Lobos baseball team and since 2005 he has been an assistant coach at the University of Nebraska for the Nebraska Cornhuskers baseball team
Bingham was also an assistant coach for the United States. team in the 1984 Summer Olympics, 1988 Baseball World Cup, and 1988 Summer Olympics.