Leslie Mann Baseball Lantern Slide, No. 104

Item Information

Title:
Leslie Mann Baseball Lantern Slide, No. 104
Description:
Ivey Wingo, a catcher for the Cincinnati Reds, stands wearing a catcher's mask while holding his glove out in front of his body around waist level with his feet spread a little more than shoulder width apart. He stands in the infield near the pitcher's mound at Crosley Field in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Creator:
Mann, Leslie
Creator:
Erker Bros. Optical Co., St. Louis Mo.,
Date:
1920–1925
Format:
Photographs
Location:
Springfield College Archives and Special Collections
Collection (local):
Leslie Mann Baseball Lantern Slide Collection
Subjects:
Baseball
Baseball caps
Baseball fields
Wingo, Ivey Brown
Cincinnati Reds
Catching
Catching Stance
Crosley Field, Cincinnati, Ohio
Link to Item:
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Publisher:
Springfield College
Language:
English
Notes:
Wingo is demonstrating when a catcher tells the pitcher to throw the ball down the middle of the plate. He holds his glove directly in front of him and has opened it up to create a pocket for the baseball to fall in, which shows how Wingo is looking to create a target for the pitcher. The pitcher would attempt to throw the ball directly into Wingo's glove from here.
Ivey Wingo was born on July 8, 1890, in Gainesville, Georgia. Wingo was a catcher who played for the St. Louis Cardinals and the Cincinnati Reds. He was a member of a Norcross team in Georgia along with his brother and the Carlyle brothers, and all four of them would eventually make it to the Major Leagues. He was purchased by the Cardinals at the end of the 1910 season, and became the starter by the 1912 season. In 1914, Wingo hit .300 for the only time in his career. He was signed to a huge contract by the Reds in 1915, as the MLB was competing with the Federal League and was trying to ensure that some of their top players didn't leave the league. When the Federal League fell apart in 1915, the Reds tried to get out of their contract with Wingo and trade him, but the fans wanted the Reds to keep Wingo, and he was kept. He was an essential part of the 1919 World Series championship win for the Reds, hitting .571 in the series. Wingo attempted to be a coach and a manager after he retired in 1926, but was met with little success. Upon retiring, Wingo had set the record for the highest amount of games caught by a catcher over the course of their career. This most likely occurred because Wingo was considered an offensive catcher. The more games he played would therefore be better for a team than playing a defensive catcher who wouldn't be as successful offensively. Wingo, however, also holds the record for the most errors by a catcher both in a season and in a career post 1900. One interesting fact about Wingo is that there is some controversy about how to spell his name. Most sources list his name as being spelt Ivy, but the Total Baseball Encyclopedia spells it Ivey.
Leslie Mann identifies the player in Slide 104 as Wingo in his manual titled the Fundamentals of Baseball on Page 26.
Good condition;
This digital image is made from two separate digital scans; one scan of the lantern slide (reflective); one scan of the image (transparecy); the two images were then combined in Photoshop to create the final image.
Lantern slide from the Leslie Mann baseball instruction course, "The Fundamentals of Baseball"
Sandoval, Jim. "Ivey Wingo." Society for American Baseball Research, [ https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/bac1fa27]. Accessed 22 May 2018. ___Internet Archive___. [http://web.archive.org/web/20180522185926/https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/bac1fa27].
Identifier:
LANT-BSBL-104-03
104