Ren Wylie

James Renwick Wylie

• Bats Right, Throws Right
• Height 5' 11", Weight 155 lb.
• School Geneva College
• Debut August 11, 1882
• Final Game August 11, 1882
• Born December 14, 1861 in Elizabeth, PA USA
• Died August 17, 1951 in Wilkinsburg, PA USA

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Biographical Information

James Renwick "Ren" Wylie's life was tied up with the state of Pennsylvania. He was born in Elizabeth, PA, went to college at Geneva College in Beaver Falls, PA, played major league ball for the Pittsburgh Alleghenys in 1882 and eventually died in Wilkinsburg, PA.

He had a prominent life after baseball. He was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1915-1918, and was also a bank president and real estate executive. [1] He was also a member of the Wilkinsburg Board of Education as well as Trustee of the Second United Presbyterian Church.

He was known as a "well-kept" religious man who also strove to get the eighteenth amendment enforced when the idea first came around, which is ironic in the sense that the Alleghenys were described as one of the hardest-drinking and roughest teams of the 1880s.

On August 28, 2022 he was inducted into the Beaver County Sports Hall of Fame.