Dave Bingham | |
Birth Date: | 19 November 1948 |
Birth Place: | Tucson, Arizona, U.S. |
Player Years1: | 1967–1968 |
Player Team1: | Arizona |
Player Years2: | 1969–1972 |
Player Team2: | Emporia State |
Player Positions: | Third baseman |
Coach Years1: | 1974–1987 |
Coach Team1: | Emporia State |
Coach Years2: | 1988–1995 |
Coach Team2: | Kansas |
Coach Years3: | 2004 |
Coach Team3: | New Mexico (assistant) |
Coach Years4: | 2006–2011 |
Coach Team4: | Nebraska (assistant) |
Overall Record: | 806–495–2 |
Championships: | 1 NAIA (1978) |
David Bingham (born November 19, 1948) is a former college baseball coach.
Bingham helped Emporia State to the NAIA World Series twice as a player. After playing briefly in as a shortstop in the Washington Senators system (hitting .174/.309/.207 in 34 games for the 1971 Geneva Senators), he was head coach at his alma mater, Kansas State Normal School/Emporia State from 1973 to 1987, going 557–270–2. From 1988 to 1995, he was at the University of Kansas, leading the Kansas Jayhawks baseball team to the 1993 College World Series while going 249–225 in eight seasons. In 2004, he was an assistant coach at the University of New Mexico for the baseball team and from August 2005 until 2011, he has been an assistant coach at the University of Nebraska for the baseball team.[1]
Bingham was also an assistant coach for the U.S. team in the 1984 Summer Olympics, 1988 Baseball World Cup, and 1988 Summer Olympics.[2]