Eddie Dwight, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American Baseball Player
Date of Birth: 25-Feb-1905
Place of Birth: Dalton, Georgia, United States
Date of Death: 27-Nov-1975
Profession: baseball player
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About Eddie Dwight
- Edward Joseph "Eddie" Dwight Sr.
- ( February 25, 1905 - November 27, 1975) was a Utility player in the Negro Leagues.
- He played mostly for the Kansas City Monarchs. 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.
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