Jerome Adams Utley (January 7, 1881 – April 24, 1959) was an American baseball player and coach, contracting engineer, hotelier and boxing promoter. He played and coached college baseball for the Michigan Wolverines baseball team in the early 1900s. He also briefly coached and played minor league baseball from 1905 to 1906. After retiring from baseball, Utley had a successful career as a contracting engineer on building projects in Detroit. From 1931 to approximately 1948, he had an ownership interest in the Hotel Playa Ensenada, later renamed the Hotel Riviera del Pacífico, a luxury hotel in Baja California, Mexico. He also briefly had a partnership with Jack Dempsey as a boxing promoter which included promoting the 1933 heavyweight championship match between Max Schmeling and Max Baer. Early years Utley was born in Stanton, Michigan, the son of Rev. Wells H. Utley and Emma (Adams) Utley. He attended Central High School in Detroit in approximately 1899. Baseball player and coach After graduating from high school, Utley entered the University of Michigan as an engineering student. He received a bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering in 1903. While attending Michigan, he was a pitcher for the Michigan Wolverines baseball team from 1900 to 1903. After receiving his degree in 1903, Utley returned to Michigan as the head coach of the Michigan Wolverines baseball team in 1904. The Wolverines had a 10–5 record in Utley's only season as the head coach. In August 1903, Utley moved to Michigan's Upper Peninsula to play for the Calumet baseball team and work as an engineer in one of the area's mines. In 1905, he was the manager of the Hancock Infants of the Copper Country Soo League. In 1906, he played minor league baseball for the Houghton Giants of the Northern-Copper Country League. In 1907, Utley was hired as the baseball coach at Detroit College. From 1908 to 1910, Utley was the star pitcher, and in 1909 the team captain, for the Detroit Athletic Club baseball team. He also returned to the mound in 1913 as a pitcher for the Euclids, a semi-pro baseball team in Detroit. Engineering career Utley became a contracting engineer in Detroit. As of September 1918, he was self-employed as an engineer with an office at the Penobscot Building in downtown Detroit. In his 1922 history of Detroit, Clarence Burton included a profile of Utley, noting: "Jerome A. Utley, a contracting