Edgar Wesley

Biography

Edgar Wooded Wesley (May 2, 1891 – July 12, 1966) was an American Negro league baseball first baseman from 1917 to 1927. He played most of his career with the Detroit Stars of the first Negro National League (NNL). Wesley was born in 1891 in Waco, Texas. He began his professional baseball career in 1917 with the Texas All-Stars. In 1918, he played for the Chicago American Giants team that compiled a 20-8-2 record and finished first among the Western independent clubs. Wesley joined the Detroit Stars, then a Western independent club, for the 1919 season. In 1920, Wesley's second season with Detroit, he led the Negro National League with 11 home runs in 64 games. He also ranked among the NNL leaders with a .498 slugging percentage (fourth), 50 RBIs (fifth), 15 doubles (sixth), and 123 total bases (eighth).

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