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).
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]
White served as a Yankee coach for three seasons in the mid-1980s before returning to the coaching staff at the start of 2004. He also spent time as the minor leaguehitting coach for the Oakland Athletics organization.
In 2002 he established The Roy White Foundation,a charity aimed to help children and young adults in the New York area who would like to attend college,but do not have the financial resources to do so. [4]
White,who is half African American (and half White through his father,Marcus White),appeared in a 2011 interview for UniWatch on Page 2 of ESPN.com about his time in Georgia with the Yankees’Double-A farm team,the Columbus Confederate Yankees,during the mid-1960s,which had a patch of the Confederate flag on its uniform. White commented that even at the height of the civil rights movement he didn't notice the patch nor pay attention to its symbolism. Instead,the native Southern Californian was faced with contending with overt racism in the Southern United States at the time.[5]
In 2014,White receive a Special Recognition Award presented by the Order Sons of Italy in America,Columbus Lodge #2143 for his efforts to promote higher education to underprivileged students through the Roy White Foundation.[6]
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