An excellent fielder who struggled as a hitter, Wine spent 12 seasons in the National League with the Philadelphia Phillies (1960; 1962–68) and the Montreal Expos (1969–72).

[1] Before the 1957 season, Wine was signed by the Philadelphia Phillies as an amateur free agent out of Northport High School.

Wine was with the memorable 1964 Philadelphia team, which was in first place most of the year but collapsed in the last two weeks to let the St. Louis Cardinals take the pennant on the last day of the season.

He played shortstop during the late innings of Jim Bunning's perfect game against the New York Mets on Father's Day of that year.

Just before Opening Day of the 1972 season, the Expos acquired Tim Foli from the New York Mets, replacing Wine as the starter at shortstop.

While he remained with Montreal as a back-up to Foli early in 1972, Wine played very little - he went to bat only 18 times in 34 games - as the more versatile Héctor Torres assumed the role of utility infielder.

[citation needed] However, he won the 1963 Gold Glove Award, led the NL in fielding in 1967, and, as mentioned above, he set a ML shortstop record with 137 double plays in 1970.

[citation needed] A jokester, "Wino" once pulled the Hidden ball trick on, of all people, Baseball Hall of Famer Willie Mays.

[citation needed] When chided for his lack of home run power in his playing career, Wine has cracked, "That's OK.

Five of Wine's 30 home runs came against Hall of Fame pitchers: two each off Juan Marichal and Warren Spahn and one off Bob Gibson.

[citation needed] Wine stayed as bench coach until the 1983 season when manager Pat Corrales was fired at mid-season despite the team being in first place.

His son, Robbie Wine, is a former major league catcher for the Houston Astros[1] and the former head baseball coach of the Penn State Nittany Lions.