Eddie Klep, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetEddie Klep
American baseball player
Date of Birth: 12-Oct-1918
Date of Death: 21-Nov-1981
Profession: baseball player
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Libra 
About Eddie Klep
- Edward Joseph Klep (October 12, 1918 – November 21, 1981) was born in Erie, Pennsylvania.
- Most notably, Klep became the first white American to play baseball in the Negro leagues when he pitched seven innings for the Cleveland Buckeyes on May 29, 1946, in an 8-6 win over the Chicago American Giants in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Klep was featured on the cover and in a highly regarded feature article in the Spring 2002 issue of Elysian Fields Quarterly.
- This article covers Klep's breaking the color barrier. Singer-songwriter Chuck Brodsky memorialized Klep's time in the Negro leagues in a song entitled, The Ballad Of Eddie Klepp. A few years after Klep's turn with the Buckeyes he was playing baseball at Rockview State Prison in central Pennsylvania. Klep died in 1981, in a state home in Los Angeles, of conditions related to long-term alcoholism. A film based on the story of Eddie Klep has been sold to Adam Sandler's production company.
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