Eddie Dwight
Edward Joseph "Eddie" Dwight Sr. was a Utility player in the Negro Leagues. He played mostly for the Kansas City Monarchs.
He graduated from Sumner High School in Kansas City, Kansas.
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.
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.
