21-05-2025
Washington sports fan Walter Wiggins Jr., D.C.'s ‘Pump It Up Man,' dies at 72
D.C. sports fans may not have known the name Walter Wiggins Jr., but chances are they knew who he was. Wiggins, a D.C. native who died at 72 on May 10, was a fixture in the crowd at Washington Wizards and Commanders games, among other local professional and high school sporting events, where he danced and pumped his arms in support of his teams. To many, he was known simply as the 'Pump It Up Man.'
