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William DeKova White (born January 28, 1934) is an American former professional
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. He played in
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(MLB) for the New York / San Francisco Giants,
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, and
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. He was an eight-time
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and seven-time
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winner who earned a championship as a top contributor in the World Series. White became a full-time sportscaster after his playing career ended in 1969 and was the play-by-play man and color analyst for
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television and radio broadcasts for 18 years. In 1989, White was elected President of the
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to replace Bart Giamatti, who succeeded
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as
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. White served as NL president until he retired in 1994.


Early life and education

White was born on January 28, 1934, in Lakewood, Florida. When White was 3, his mother and grandmother moved to
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, where they lived in a segregated housing project. White's mother worked to support the family, and he was raised by his grandmother. White graduated from
Warren G. Harding High School Warren G. Harding High School is a public high school in Warren, Ohio, United States. It is the only high school in the Warren City School District. Sports teams are called the Raiders, and they compete in the Ohio High School Athletic Associatio ...
in
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in 1952, and was both president and
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of his class. Because White was African American, Harding's principal ended the school tradition of the class president dancing with the prom queen (who was white that year). He then stayed in-state to attend
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from 1953 to 1955. He chose the school because of its pre-med program. In both high school and college, White lettered in baseball, basketball, and football.


Playing career

White was scouted by the New York Giants while playing in a tournament for Hiram College. He tried out for Giants manager
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. The Giants offered White $1,000 to sign with them. He wanted more so he could pay for college. After the Giants raised the offer to $2,500 he signed with the Giants, on the condition that he could complete college. He put his plans for becoming a doctor on hold while he pursued baseball, to see if he could make it into major league baseball in 3-4 years. While he returned to college each year after playing minor league baseball, in 1955 his focus turned completely to baseball, and White did not finish college.


Minor league

In 1953, at age 19, White was assigned to the Danville Leafs (Virginia) of the Class-B
Carolina League The Carolina League is a Minor League Baseball league which has operated along the Atlantic Coast of the United States since 1945. Having been classified at various levels throughout its existence, it operated at Class A-Advanced from 1990 unti ...
. As a minor-leaguer, White was the second black American to play for a Carolina League team, and was the only black player on his team. Percy Miller Jr. broke the color barrier for that league in 1951. White had an excellent year, with a .298
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, 20
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, 99
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, 84
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(RBI), and 21
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. However, the league's fans subjected White to a level of racial abuse and invective than he had never experienced before, and he called it the worst year of his life. On one occasion, his teammates had to protect him "behind a shield of bats" from a rock-throwing crowd in
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. White played
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ball in 1954, batting .319, with 30 home runs, 120 runs scored, 92 RBI, 40 stolen bases, and a .967 on base plus slugging percentage (OPS). At Double-A in 1955, for the Dallas Eagles of the
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, he hit .295, with 22 home runs, 88 runs scored, 93 RBI, 18 stolen bases, and a .862 OPS. In 1956, he played 20 games for the
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of the Triple-A American Association, when he was called up to the Giants.


Major league

In his 13-season major league career, White batted .286 with 202
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s and 870 RBIs in 1,673 games.


San Francisco Giants

In White's first game with the Giants on May 7, 1956, he hit a home run in his first major league
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in the second inning. White played 138 games that year as the Giants first baseman, hitting .256 with 22 home runs. He did not play in 1957, due to military service. White rejoined the team in July 1958, after the Giants had moved to San Francisco, playing in only 26 games. If he stayed with the Giants, White would have to compete for the first base job with future hall of fame player
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, the 1958 rookie of the year, and up and coming future hall of fame first baseman
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. On March 25, 1959, White was traded with Ray Jablonski to St. Louis Cardinals for Sam Jones and Don Choate.


St. Louis Cardinals

White played for the Cardinals from 1959 through 1965, never hitting below .283, and surpassing .300 four times. He made the
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(NL) All-Star team every one of those years except 1962; however, in 1962, he had his highest career batting average (.324), his career high OPS (.868), along with 93 runs scored, and 102 RBI. He also won a gold glove at first base that year, and was 13th in NL MVP voting. His best statistical year came in
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when he posted career highs with 200 hits, 106 runs scored, 27 home runs, and 109 RBIs. White was a consistent performer, particularly during the
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- 64 seasons. During those three seasons, he had highly productive and notably consistent numbers for hits (199, 200, 191), runs (93, 106, 92), home runs (20, 27, 21), runs batted in (102, 109, 102), and average (.324, .304, .303). During the
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Cardinals championship season, White placed third in the league MVP voting for his overall seasonal performance yet had a subpar postseason, batting only .111 (3–27 with 2 RBI) in the
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. A capable baserunner, White stole 12 or more bases four times. He was also one of the top defensive first basemen of his time, winning seven straight
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(1960–66). White
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on August 14, 1960, and once hit three home runs in a game, on July 5, 1961. Also in July 1961, White tied
Ty Cobb Tyrus Raymond Cobb (December 18, 1886 – July 17, 1961), nicknamed "the Georgia Peach", was an American professional baseball center fielder. A native of rural Narrows, Georgia, Cobb played 24 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). He spent ...
's 49-year Major League record by collecting 14 hits in consecutive doubleheaders, both against the
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at
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, going 4-for-5 in both games on July 17 and 3-for-4 in both games the very next day. Ironically, the first doubleheader was played on the same day Cobb died and 49 years to the day after Cobb collected eight hits to begin his feat.


Philadelphia Phillies

On October 27, 1965, the Cardinals traded White, Dick Groat and
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to Philadelphia Phillies for
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, Art Mahaffey and Alex Johnson. In 1966, White hit .276, with 22 home runs, 85 runs scored and 103 RBI in 159 games and was 23rd in MVP voting; but those numbers steadily declined in the following two seasons, after tearing his Achilles Tendon in the 1966 off-season. The Phillies traded White back to the Cardinals for Jim Hutto and Jerry Buchek in April 1969, his final season. He played sparingly in only 49 games.


Broadcasting career

White earned a sports program on
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radio in St. Louis while he was still playing for the Cardinals, after being chided by then Cardinals' sports broadcaster
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to try out. Following his trade to the Phillies, in 1966, after a meeting with executive produced Lew Klein of Philadelphia's
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television station (now WPVI-TV), White pre-recorded a pre-game show for Phillies baseball games. During the off-season, White became a sportscaster for WFIL-TV. He was WFIL's first sports director when it launched its long-running
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format in 1970 (with news anchor Larry Kane and weathercaster Frank Davis). While in Philadelphia, White became the first African-American to broadcast
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games when he called several games of the
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. In
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, White joined the
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' broadcast team. He called Yankee games from
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to 1988, most often teamed with
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and Frank Messer. White did the team's broadcasts on both radio and television during most of that stretch. White was the first regular black play-by-play announcer for a major-league sports team. On New York City radio, White was featured on WMCA from 1971 to
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, after which the Yankees switched over to WINS. In
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, the Yankee broadcast team moved over to WABC. On television, White worked with Rizzuto and Messer on
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. Nationally, White helped call several
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for CBS Radio (, , , , and ) and did sports reports for the network. White worked as a ''
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'' announcer for ABC television in the late 1970s. He also did pre-game reports for ABC's coverage of the Yankee Stadium games in the 1977 World Series, and handled the post-game trophy presentation for the network after the Yankees clinched the world title in the sixth game. WPIX and its usual Rizzuto-Messer-White broadcast trifecta carried the ALCS in
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,
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,
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,
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and
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, providing New York viewers a local alternative to the nationally broadcast telecasts. The most famous highlight with White on play-by-play was the Bucky Dent three-run home run during the
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between the Yankees and Red Sox in 1978 on WPIX. Outside of baseball, White was also part of the coverage of the
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in 1980 and 1984. The Yankee organization showed their appreciation following his years in the broadcast booth when they selected him to receive their Pride of the Yankees Award in 1990.


National League president and retirement

White was elected to replace Giamatti as National League president in
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in a unanimous vote, becoming the first black executive to hold such a high position in sports. He served as NL president through
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. In his autobiography, he later expressed the concern that he had about having been more of a figurehead while NL president, but he also said that he managed to accomplish some of the goals that he originally had when he took the job. For several years, beginning just after his retirement from the NL, White was a member of the Veterans Committee of the
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. White, along with fellow newcomers to the committee
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(a longtime
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teammate), and Rizzuto's top rival and stand-out shortstop for the perennial pennant-winning NL
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,
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, were noted for having helped swing the vote in favor of the Yankee shortstop's candidacy during their first year on the committee. In
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, White released his autobiography entitled ''Uppity: My Untold Story About the Games People Play''. On May 22, 2020, White was elected to the St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame along with Tom Herr and John Tudor.


Personal Life

Before White was inducted into the US Army, he married his high school sweetheart, Mildred Hightower, on November 20, 1956. They would have five children before they divorced in the 1980s. White currently resides in Upper Black Eddy, Pennsylvania.


See also

* List of Major League Baseball players with a home run in their first major league at bat *
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