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Roy White

American baseball player (born 1943)

Field	Value
name	Roy White
image	Roy White 1970.jpg
caption	White in 1970
position	Left fielder
bats	Switch
throws	Right
birth_date
birth_place	Los Angeles, California, U.S.
debutleague	MLB
debutdate	September 7
debutyear	1965
debutteam	New York Yankees
finalleague	MLB
finaldate	September 27
finalyear	1979
finalteam	New York Yankees
statleague	MLB
stat1label	Batting average
stat1value	.271
stat2label	Home runs
stat2value	160
stat3label	Runs batted in
stat3value	758
stat2league	NPB
stat21label	Batting average
stat21value	.283
stat22label	Home runs
stat22value	54
stat23label	Runs batted in
stat23value	172

New York Yankees (–)
Yomiuri Giants (–)
2× All-Star (1969, 1970)
2× World Series champion (, ) Roy Hilton White (born December 27, 1943) is an American former professional baseball player and coach. He played his entire career in Major League Baseball as an outfielder for the New York Yankees between 1965 and 1979. With the Yankees, he won two championships in 1977 and '78, both over his hometown Los Angeles Dodgers.

White, who came up a year after the Yankees’ final “dynastic” World Series appearance in 1964, is the only player from the franchise's subsequent period of decline during the mid to late 1960s to participate in their championships of the late 1970s.

Playing career

White, a switch hitter, was named to the American League All-Star team in 1969 and in 1970. In , he set an American League record for most sacrifice flies in a season with 17. White led the American League in walks in and in runs in . He played on three American League pennant winners (in 1976, 1977, and 1978), and two World Series championship teams (1977 and 1978).

After playing in the major leagues, he spent three seasons playing in Japan for the Tokyo Giants.

In a 15-year major league career, White played in 1,881 games, accumulating 1,803 hits in 6,650 at bats for a .271 career batting average along with 160 home runs, 758 runs batted in and a .360 on-base percentage. He ended his career with a .986 fielding percentage. A sure-handed fielder who took no chances, White led American League left fielders in fielding percentage for four consecutive years between and .

Coaching career and retirement

White served as a Yankee coach for three seasons in the mid-1980s before returning to the coaching staff at the start of 2004. He also spent time as the minor league hitting coach for the Oakland Athletics organization.

In 2002 he established The Roy White Foundation, a charity aimed to help children and young adults in the New York area who would like to attend college, but do not have the financial resources to do so.

White, who is half African American (and half White through his father, Marcus White), appeared in a 2011 interview for UniWatch on Page 2 of ESPN.com about his time in Georgia with the Yankees’ Double-A farm team, the Columbus Confederate Yankees, during the mid-1960s, which had a patch of the Confederate flag on its uniform. White commented that even at the height of the civil rights movement he didn't notice the patch nor pay attention to its symbolism. Instead, the native Southern Californian was faced with contending with overt racism in the Southern United States at the time.

In 2014, White receive a Special Recognition Award presented by the Order Sons of Italy in America, Columbus Lodge #2143 for his efforts to promote higher education to underprivileged students through the Roy White Foundation.

References

"Roy White statistics". Baseball Reference.
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"Roy White Foundation".
"Uni Watch: Confederate flag investigation".
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