Wiggins had a 31 year career in softball and was known for his clutch hitting and solid defensive play in the outfield for some of the top teams in Northern Kentucky in the early days of slow pitch softball. Wiggins played in 15 ASA national championships including 12 slow pitch, two Major Industrial and one Major fast pitch (1949). He was a member of four national championship teams, including the first ASA Men’s Slow Pitch national champ, Shield’s Contractors in 1953, Lang’s Pet Shop (1955) and Joe Gatliff Auto Sales (1957 and 1963).Besides the national championship teams, he played on teams that were runners-up four times, third three times, fourth once and fifth once (fast pitch). The slow pitch teams he played for compiled a record of 68-23 in national championship play. In the 14 slow pitch nationals he played in, Wiggins hit between .428 and .750 (1958). Three times he was named an ASA All-American: 1956 (.666 batting average); 1961 (.650 batting average) and 1963 (.519 average, two homers). In 31 years of playing Wiggins estimated he played more than 5,000 league and tournament games. Wiggins said the greatest thrill of his career was in 1963 when his team was 12 runs down going into the bottom of the sixth and it came back to win 13-12. The person who influenced his softball career the most was his manager Al Brausch.In January of 1985, he was inducted into the Northern Kentucky Sports Hall of Fame. He passed away October 15, 1996 of cancer. He was born December 20, 1928 and passed away October 15, 1996. In 1999, Wiggins was elected to the National Senior Softball Hall of Fame.
