finalyear bats death_date death_place birth_place debutyear finaldate statvalue position finalteam statlabel debutdate birth_date image article_title debutteam name throws
1948 right 22 may 1974 augusta , georgia pacolet mills , south carolina 1940 october 3 30 -- 21 244 489 1/3 2.78 pitcher boston braves win-loss record strikeouts innings pitched earned run average may 9 5 september 1916 ernie white cardinals.jpg ernie white
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ernie white

ernest daniel white -lrb- september 5 , 1916 -- may 22 , 1974 -rrb- was an american professional baseball player who pitched in the major leagues from 1940 to 1943 and in 1946 -- 48 .
a native of pacolet mills , south carolina , he threw left-handed , batted right-handed , stood -lrb- 182 cm -rrb- tall and weighed 175 pounds -lrb- 79 kg -rrb- .
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 .
in 108 games , he won 30 and lost 21 contests , with an earned run average of 2.78 .
all thirty victories came during his first four years in the league as a cardinal .
he served in the u.s. army during world war ii and missed the 1944 -- 45 seasons .
he pitched 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 , , 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 .
because of a sore arm , white pitched in only one game and four innings for the 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 nl championship team before embarking on a 15-year -lrb- 1949 -- 62 ; 1964 -rrb- career as a minor league manager in the farm systems of the boston/milwaukee 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 , , as pitching coach of the mets on the staff of legendary casey stengel .
ernie white died in augusta , georgia , at the age of 57 from complications following knee surgery .
