Eddie Dwight

{{Infobox baseball biography

|name=Eddie Dwight

|image=Eddie Dwight Baseball.jpg

|position=Utility player

|bats=Both

|throws=Right

|birth_date={{birth date|mf=yes|1905|2|25}}

|birth_place=Dalton, Georgia, US

|death_date={{death date and age|mf=yes|1975|11|27|1905|2|25}}

|death_place=Kansas City, Kansas, US

|debutyear={{by|1925}}

|debutteam=Indianapolis ABCs

|finalyear={{by|1937}}

|finalteam=Kansas City Monarchs

|teams=

• Indianapolis ABCs ({{by|1925}})
• Gilkerson's Union Giants ({{by|1926}}–{{by|1927}})[https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B1Wcncq5-bHdVWFYMENhekRMUVk "Gilkerson Union Giants Swamp Knights of Columbus Nine 11 to 4" Davenport Democrat and Leader, Davenport, IA, Monday Evening, June 21, 1926, Page 7, Columns 1 and 2]
• Kansas City Monarchs ({{by|1928}}–{{by|1929}}, {{by|1933}}-{{by|1937}})[http://johndonaldson.bravehost.com/pdf/01653.pdf "Greeley Advertisers Downed by Colored Club; Score 12-1" Negro Star, Wichita, Kansas, Friday, August 10, 1934, Page 3, Columns 1 to 6]
• Indianapolis ABCs (1931–1933) ({{by|1931}}-{{by|1932}})

}}

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.{{Cite web|title=Negro Leagues Baseball eMuseum: Personal Profiles: Eddie Dwight|url=https://www.nlbemuseum.com/history/players/dwight.html|website=www.nlbemuseum.com|access-date=2020-05-01}}{{Cite web|title=Eddie Dwight Negro Leagues Statistics & History|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=dwight000edd|website=Baseball-Reference.com|language=en|access-date=2020-05-01}}{{Cite web|title=Eddie Dwight - Seamheads Negro Leagues Database|url=http://www.seamheads.com/NegroLgs/player.php?playerID=dwigh01edd|website=www.seamheads.com|access-date=2020-05-01}}

He graduated from Sumner High School in Kansas City, Kansas.{{Cite web|title=Dwight family papers|url=http://etext.ku.edu/view?docId=ksrlead/ksrl.kc.dwightgeorgia.xml|website=etext.ku.edu|access-date=2020-05-01}}

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.

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.{{Cite web |url=http://www.umkc.edu/whmckc/Collections/INVTRY/KC0047.pdf |title="Inventory of Janet Bruce Negro Leagues Interviews" |access-date=2012-10-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304000240/http://www.umkc.edu/whmckc/Collections/INVTRY/KC0047.pdf |archive-date=2016-03-04 |url-status=dead }} 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.