Died: October 14, 1950(1950-10-14) (aged 81) Minneapolis, Minnesota
Batted: Right
Threw: Right
Teams
Adrian, Michigan Team (1895)
Page Fence Giants (1895–1898) [1][2]
Columbia Giants (1899–1902) [3][4]
Chicago Union Giants (1902, 1920)[5][6]
Philadelphia Giants (1903) [7]
Chicago Union Giants (1904) [8]
Leland Giants (1905)[9]
Philadelphia Quaker Giants (1906) [10]
Philadelphia Giants (1907) [11]
Minneapolis Keystones (1908) [12]
St. Paul Colored Gophers (1909-1911) [13]
Kansas City, Kansas Giants (1910)
Hennepin Clothing Company (1912)
Hennepin Negro Giants (1913)
Willmar, Minnesota (1921-1926)
William H. Binga (February 26, 1869 – October 14, 1950) was an American third baseman,[3] catcher[1] and manager in the pre-Negro league baseball era. Born in Michigan, Binga played most of his career in Chicago, Illinois,[8] Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Minneapolis, Minnesota.[13]
1905 Leland Giants
Currently, it appears Binga started his baseball career at the age of 26, playing three games as a catcher for a team in Adrian, Michigan. He quickly moved on to the Page Fence Giants,[1] which eventually brought him to Chicago when the team moved to Chicago and became the Chicago Columbia Giants in 1899.
In Chicago, he played for several seasons for the Columbia Giants, Chicago Union Giants, and the Leland Giants.[9] He would move with many fellow players to Minnesota in 1908. Binga left the Colored Gophers based in Minneapolis in August 1911, the newspaper citing a "disastrous season" due to "bad management" and said the players of the team were "much dissatisfied."[14]
During his career, he played with Sol White, Rube Foster, George Wilson, Walter Ball, Eugene Barton, Andrew Campbell, Alex Irwin, Candy Jim Taylor, Johnny Davis, and he played baseball alongside University of Minnesota famed Bobby Marshall.[12]
1910 St. Paul Gophers
Fellow player Jimmy Smith called Binga "the only third sacker and surest hitter in the country."[15]
After a couple of seasons in Philadelphia, it appears Binga played the rest of his seasons for teams in Minnesota and the Dakotas. The last known game Binga played was in Willmar, Minnesota. He was living in Willmar as late as the 1930 Census, where he is still listed as renting a place from Clayton R. Baker.[16]
^ abc"The Diamond" Cedar Rapids Evening Gazette, Cedar Rapids, IA, Saturday, April 24, 1897, Page 5, Column 3
^"A Close Game" The Repository, Canton, Ohio, Monday, May 9, 1898, Page 2, Column 5
^ ab"The Columbian Giants Beat Lowney's Haymakers in the Opening Game" The Mansfield News, Mansfield, OH, April 25, 1899, Page 4, Column 1, 2, and 3
^"The Game Tomorrow" The Fort Wayne Evening Sentinel, Fort Wayne, IN, Tuesday, April 29, 1902, Page 3, column 5
^"Colored Men Will Play Here Two Days" The Racine Daily Journal, Racine, WI, Friday Afternoon, September 19, 1902, Page 8, Column 1
^"Kilby Homer Wins for Pyotts From U. Giants" Chicago Herald Examiner, Chicago, Illinois, Monday, May 17, 1920, Page 8, Column 5
^"Y.M.C.A. Team Should Have Won" The Trenton Times, Trenton, NJ, Monday, September 28, 1903, Page 9, Column 2
^ ab"Lose Third" The Eau Claire Daily Leader, Eau Claire, Wisconsin, Page 2, Columns 1 and 2
^"Mr. William Binga" Twin City Star, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Saturday, August 19, 1911, Page 1, Column 3
^"The Past and Present in Baseball" Indianapolis Freeman, Indianapolis, Indiana, Saturday, May 28, 1910, Page 7, Columns 3 and 4
^"United States Census, 1930," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/X38W-4L1 : accessed 24 Jan 2013), William H Binga in household of Clayton R Baker, Willmar, Kandiyohi, Minnesota; citing enumeration district (ED) 0032, sheet 18B, family 468, NARA microfilm publication T626, roll 1104
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