William Barney White (June 25, 1923 – July 24, 2002), nicknamed "Bear", was an American

infielder An infielder is a baseball player stationed at one of four defensive "infield" positions on the baseball field, between first base and third base. Standard arrangement of positions In a game of baseball, two teams of nine players take turns pla ...

Major League Baseball Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball league composed of 30 teams, divided equally between the National League (baseball), National League (NL) and the American League (AL), with 29 in the United States and 1 in Canada. MLB i ...

who played four games during the season for the

Brooklyn Dodgers The Brooklyn Dodgers were a Major League Baseball team founded in 1883 as the Brooklyn Grays. In 1884, it became a member of the American Association as the Brooklyn Atlantics before joining the National League in 1890. They remained in Brook ...

. Born in

Paris, Texas Paris is a city and county seat of Lamar County, Texas, United States. Located in Northeast Texas at the western edge of the Piney Woods, the population of the city was 24,171 in 2020. History Present-day Lamar County was part of Red River ...

, he died at age 79 in

Tyler, Texas Tyler, officially the City of Tyler, is a city in and the county seat of Smith County, Texas, United States. As of 2020, the population is 105,995. Tyler was the List of municipalities in Texas, 38th most populous city in Texas (as well as the m ...

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1923 births 2002 deaths Major League Baseball infielders Brooklyn Dodgers players Baseball players from Lamar County, Texas Sportspeople from Paris, Texas Minor league baseball managers Mobile Bears players Fort Worth Cats players Tulsa Oilers (baseball) players Paris Rockets players Temple Eagles players Galveston White Caps players Texas City Pilots players Thibodaux Pilots players 20th-century American sportsmen {{US-baseball-infielder-stub