Bob Wiggins

Robert Wiggins

• School Chicago State College
• High School Hale County Training School
• Born September 28, 1933 in Greensboro, AL USA
• Died November 16, 2012 in Hines, IL USA

Biographical information

Bob Wiggins played in the dying Negro American League in 1959 and 1960 for the Raleigh Tigers and Kansas City Monarchs.

He was drafted into the Army in 1953. In the mid-to-late 1950s, he played semi-professional baseball for the Chicago Giants, Chicago Brown Bombers, Chicago Giants and Mobile Black Barons, earning a tryout with the Chicago White Sox in 1958 - though they did not sign him. He later received an invitation from the Chicago Cubs, who also did not give him a contract.

He later became an instructor for the independent Gary SouthShore RailCats.