Ed Conley

{{Short description|American baseball player (1864–1894)}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}

{{Infobox baseball biography

| name = Ed Conley

| image = Ed Conley.jpg

| position = Pitcher

| bats = Unknown

| throws = Unknown

| birth_date = {{birth date|mf=yes|1864|7|10}}

| birth_place = Sandwich, Massachusetts, U.S.

| death_date = {{death date and age|mf=yes|1894|10|16|1864|7|10}}

| death_place = Cumberland, Rhode Island, U.S.

|debutleague = MLB

| debutdate = July 20

| debutyear = 1884

| debutteam = Providence Grays

|finalleague = MLB

| finaldate = October 9

| finalyear = 1884

| finalteam = Providence Grays

|statleague = MLB

| stat1label = Games pitched

| stat1value = 8

| stat2label = Win–loss record

| stat2value = 4–4

| stat3label = Earned run average

| stat3value = 2.15

| teams =

• Providence Grays ({{baseball year|1884}})

| highlights =

}}

Edward J. Conley (July 10, 1864 – October 16, 1894) was an American professional baseball player who pitched in Major League Baseball for the {{baseball year|1884}} Providence Grays. He pitched in eight games and had a win–loss record of 4–4 with a 2.15 earned run average in 71 innings pitched.

Born in Sandwich, Massachusetts, Conley attended the College of the Holy Cross, where he was known as a skilled baseball player.{{cite news | title = The Late E.J. Conley | pages = 1 | newspaper = Yarmouth Register | location = Yarmouth, MA | date = November 3, 1894 | url = http://digital.olivesoftware.com/Olive/APA/Yarmouth/SharedView.Article.aspx?href=SYR%2F1894%2F11%2F03&id=Ar00102&sk=19A2ECE1&viewMode=image }} In 1884, he was playing for a semi-pro team in Woonsocket, Rhode Island when he was signed by the Grays to fill in for suspended Baseball Hall of Famer Charles "Old Hoss" Radbourn.{{cite book |last=Nemec |first=David |date=2012 |title=The Rank and File of 19th Century Major League Baseball |location=Jefferson, NC |publisher=McFarland |page=22,23 |isbn=978-0-7864-6890-4 }} After winning the 1884 championship with the Grays, he played for the minor league Bridgeport Giants in 1885, and for the Haverhill team of the New England League in 1886. He died at the age of 30 of Phthisis pulmonalis (tuberculosis) in Cumberland, Rhode Island.{{cite web|url=http://www.thedeadballera.com/tooyoung.html|title=Too Young To Die|work=thedeadballera.com|publisher=TheDeadBallEra|access-date=2009-05-24}} He is interred at Mount Calvary Cemetery in Cumberland.{{cite web|url=http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/C/Pconle101.htm|title=Ed Conley's career statistics|work=retrosheet.org|publisher=Retrosheet, Inc|access-date=2009-05-24}}