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lieutenant is not known exactly where Ivey Wingo was born, with some accounts say Gainesville, Georgia and others Norcross, Georgia.
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Ivey Wingo
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He played all or part of seventeen seasons in Major League Baseball for the Saint Louis Cardinals and Cincinnati Reds, primarily as a catcher. Regardless, he spent the entirety of his life as a resident of the state of Georgia. Wingo spent the first four years of his career (1911-1914) with the Cardinals and last thirteen years with the Reds.
He also managed the Reds for two games during the 1916 season.
He led the National League in at bats per strikeout (307) in 1917. Wingo is best known for being the backstop for the 1919 World Series Championship Reds team
That team is known for winning the a series fixed by, amongst others, Arnold Rothstein and Abe "Little Champ" Attell. He played with the Reds until 1926, then continued with the team as a coach before getting in one final major league appearance on the last day of the 1929 season, replacing regular catcher Johnny Gooch in the late innings of a game against the Cardinals.
Overview At the time of his retirement, he held the National League record for games caught in a career at 1,233.
He still holds the post-1900 major league records for most career errors by a catcher (234).
