Edward Dwyer (baseball)

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Edward James Dwyer (1897-1951) was a right-handed pitcher, who played for the New York Yankees and Cincinnati Reds. In 1919, while pitching for the Yankees in a game against the Detroit Tigers, he threw a baseball 98 miles an hour, the fastest speed recorded at the time. Dwyer died in 1951 due to acute liver failure, he was widowed two years prior by his wife's suicide. Dwyer also was briefly an umpire in the American league in 1942 and 1943.