Ernest Daniel White (September 5, 1916 – May 22, 1974) was an American

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who pitched in the Major Leagues from to and from to . A native of Pacolet Mills, South Carolina, he threw left-handed, batted right-handed, stood tall and weighed . White pitched for two

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clubs, the

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and

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, during his seven-year MLB career, and was a member of three pennant-winners and one

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champion. He threw a complete-game

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in Game 3 of the

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, defeating the

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2–0 at

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, 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 United States Army, U.S. Army during World War II, missing the 1944–45 seasons. While in Europe he participated in the Battle of the Bulge. Because of a sore arm, White pitched in only one games pitched, game and four innings pitched, innings for the Braves, and spent most of that campaign as a coach (baseball), coach on the staff of Boston manager (baseball), manager Billy Southworth. But he was able to return to the mound for 15 games and 23 innings with Boston's 1948 1948 Boston Braves season, NL championship team. In 108 career major-league games, he won 30 and lost 21 contests, with 24 complete games, five shutouts and six save (baseball), saves, with an earned run average of 2.78; in 489 innings pitched, he strikeout, struck out 244, and permitted 425 hit (baseball), 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 baseball, 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 South Atlantic League (1904–1963), Sally League playoffs. White also spent one season, , 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.

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