Roy White
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This article is about the baseball player. For the Texas architect, see J. Roy White. For the New Zealand rugby union player, see Roy White (rugby union).
Roy Hilton White (born December 27, 1943) is an American former professional baseball player and coach.[1] 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.
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Roy White | |
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Left fielder | |
Born: (1943-12-27) December 27, 1943 (age 80) Los Angeles, California, U.S. | |
Batted: Switch Threw: Right | |
MLB debut | |
September 7, 1965, for the New York Yankees | |
Last MLB appearance | |
September 27, 1979, for the New York Yankees | |
MLB statistics | |
Batting average | .271 |
Home runs | 160 |
Runs batted in | 758 |
NPB statistics | |
Batting average | .283 |
Home runs | 54 |
Runs batted in | 172 |
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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.[2]