Biggs Wehde
Wilbur "Biggs" Wehde was an American Major League Baseball pitcher who played in and with the Chicago White Sox. He batted and threw right-handed.Biography
Wehde was born November 23, 1906 and grew up on an eleven-acre dairy farm on the edge of Holstein, Iowa, where is father operated a small creamery. He was the eldest of nine children born to Gus and Anna Wehde. His twin brothers Ray and Roy Wehde were basketball players at Holstein High School and Iowa State University.
He played minor league baseball for the Sioux City Cowboys and the Dubuque Tigers of the Mississippi Valley League before joining the White Sox in September 15, 1930 at the age of 23. Wehde would go on to make twelve appearances for Chicago, all in relief, during 1930 and 1931.
Biggs served as a Specialist 3 in the U.S. Navy during World War II.
He died on September 21, 1970 at the age of 63, in Sioux Falls, South Dakota and is buried in Calvary Cemetery, Sioux City, Iowa.
