Casey Wise
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Casey Wise (September 8, 1932 - February 20, 2007) Born in West Lafayette, IN, Casey Wise was a major league baseball player, an infielder, during parts of four seasons, 1957-1960, with three different clubs: the Chicago Cubs, the Milwaukee Braves and the Detroit Tigers. His full name was Kendall Cole Wise, and presumably his nickname derived from his initials.
Wise's career batting average was comfortably below the Mendoza line, at .174 in his 126 games, a fact pointed out by Brendan C. Boyd and Fred C. Harris in their impish commentary in The Great American Baseball Card Flipping, Trading and Bubble Gum Book, which designated Wise as the benchmark by which to measure all very poor-hitting major league position players: "Nobody could hit the way he couldn't."
After his baseball career, he became a well-respected Orthodontist in the town of Naples, FL. He was the town's first orthodontist beginning to practice in 1968. He retired from practice in 1991.
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