Eddie Dwight | |
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Utility player | |
Born: Dalton, Georgia | February 25, 1905|
Died: November 27, 1975 Kansas City, Kansas | (aged 70)|
Batted: Both Threw: Right | |
debut | |
1925, for the Indianapolis ABCs | |
Last appearance | |
1937, for the Kansas City Monarchs | |
Teams | |
Edward Joseph Dwight Sr. (February 25, 1905 - November 27, 1975) was a utility player in the Negro leagues. He played mostly for the Kansas City Monarchs. [3] [4] [5] [6]
He graduated from Sumner High School in Kansas City, Kansas. [7]
After retiring from baseball, he went to work at Kansas State Grain laboratory where he worked as a chemist. In 1946, the Dwight family opened Dwight's Soda Grill in Kansas City, Kansas. [7]
According to Dwight's wife, in taped interviews by Janet Bruce, Eddie Dwight worked as a bus driver for the Kansas City Monarchs into the team's later years, and continued to appear as a player. [8] In 1962, Dwight's son Eddie Dwight Jr. became the first black American selected for training as an astronaut by NASA. He would later go on to become a sculptor. Some of his subjects have included Negro league baseball players.
Dwight died at the age of 70 in Kansas City, Kansas. [5]