American baseball player (1916-1974)
Baseball player
Ernie White
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Pitcher
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Born:
(
1916-09-05
)
September 5, 1916
Pacolet Mills, South Carolina
, U.S.
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Died:
May 22, 1974
(1974-05-22)
(aged 57)
Augusta, Georgia
, U.S.
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Batted:
Right
Threw:
Left
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May 9, 1940, for the St. Louis Cardinals
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October 3, 1948, for the Boston Braves
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Win?loss record
| 30?21
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Earned run average
| 2.78
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Strikeouts
| 244
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Ernest Daniel White
(September 5, 1916 ? May 22, 1974) was an American
professional baseball
player
who
pitched
in the
Major Leagues
from
1940
to
1943
and from
1946
to
1948
. A native of
Pacolet Mills, South Carolina
, he threw left-handed, batted right-handed, stood
5 ft
11
+
1
⁄
2
in (1.82 m) tall and weighed 175 pounds (79 kg).
White pitched for two
National League
clubs, the
St. Louis Cardinals
and
Boston Braves
, during his seven-year MLB career, and was a member of three pennant-winners and one
World Series
champion. He threw a complete-game
shutout
in Game 3 of the
1942 World Series
, defeating the
New York Yankees
2?0 at
Yankee Stadium
, as the Cardinals beat New York in five games in the only World Series ever lost by the Yanks during
Joe McCarthy's
15+-year term as manager. During the previous season, 1941, White enjoyed his best campaign, winning 17 of 24 decisions, compiling an ERA of 2.40, and finishing sixth in the NL
Most Valuable Player
poll.
White served in the
U.S. Army
during World War II, missing the 1944?45 seasons.
[1]
While in Europe he participated in the
Battle of the Bulge
.
[2]
Because of a sore arm, White pitched in only one
game
and four
innings
for the
1947
Braves, and spent most of that campaign as a
coach
on the staff of Boston
manager
Billy Southworth
. But he was able to return to the mound for 15 games and 23 innings with Boston's 1948
NL championship team
.
In 108 career major-league games, he won 30 and lost 21 contests, with 24
complete games
, five shutouts and six
saves
, with an
earned run average
of 2.78; in 489
1
⁄
3
innings pitched
, he
struck out
244, and permitted 425
hits
and 188
bases on balls
. All thirty victories came during his first four years in the league as a Cardinal. His six-hit shutout of the Bombers in 1942 was his only World Series appearance.
In 1949, White embarked on a 15-year career as a
minor league
manager, toiling in the
farm systems
of the Braves,
Cincinnati Reds
,
Kansas City Athletics
, Yankees and
New York Mets
, winning three league championships. His 1952
Columbia Reds
won 100 regular-season games, but lost in the
Sally League
playoffs. White also spent one season,
1963
, as pitching coach of the Mets on the staff of legendary
Casey Stengel
.
White died in
Augusta, Georgia
, at the age of 57 from complications following knee surgery.
[2]
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