Player White was selected by the
Montreal Expos in the 14th round (322nd overall) of the
1970 Major League Baseball draft out of San Francisco's
Washington High School. He made his major league debut on September 16, 1974 at Montreal's
Jarry Park, starting in center field and going 0-for-2 in a 3–2 Expos' loss to the
New York Mets. White's first full major league season came in 1976, as he hit .245 with two home runs and 21 RBI in 114 games with the Expos. In December 1985, White signed as a free agent with the
St. Louis Cardinals. He made his final major league appearance on June 9, 1986, ironically against the Montreal Expos, the team he spent the majority of his professional career with. In 646 games over 11 seasons, White posted a .253
batting average (303-for-1,196) with 155
runs, 21
home runs, 109
RBI, 57
stolen bases and 148
bases on balls. He finished his career with a .974
fielding percentage playing at all three outfield positions. In the 1981 postseason, he hit .235 (8-for-34) with five runs, a home run, 4 RBI, four stolen bases and five walks. A career highlight came in the
1979 Caribbean Series with the Venezuelan champion Magallanes, when White was the only player in the tournament with at least one hit in each game, leading the hitters with a .522 average, 12 hits, five runs, 4 RBI, a .607
on-base percentage, a .783
slugging percentage, and a 1.370
OPS.
Coaching Following his playing career, White was hired as the first base coach of the
Minnesota Twins in 1998. In October 2012, after two consecutive seasons of 90+ losses, the Twins' front office decided to shake things up by releasing or reassigning six of seven coaches, including White. ==Honors==