Iffy Club Member

Black text around the rim separated by two line-drawn baseballs surroundeding an illustration of an orange and black tiger with a long tail that wraps around it to form a circle.

Malcolm W. Bingay's persistence and tenacity led to his meteoric rise through the ranks of the newspaper industry in Detroit. He began his career as a printer's devil after being expelled from school. He cut his teeth at the Detroit News and became the managing editor at the age of 29. 

Bingay came into his own working at the Detroit Free Press. Still he was not a household name, preferring to write under the nom de plume "Iffy the Dopester." Iffy was personified as a baseball wizard by Floyd Nixon, the art director at Detroit Free Press. Bingray wrote the sports column and Nixon created tiger cartoons to celebrate the Detroit Tigers’ wins. Iffy the Dopester buttons became must have flair during Tiger games at Comerica Park.