Mike White (baseball), Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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American baseball player
Date of Birth: 18-Dec-1938
Place of Birth: Detroit, Michigan, United States
Profession: baseball player
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius 
About Mike White (baseball)
- Joyner Michael White (born December 18, 1938) is an American former professional baseball player.
- Primarily an outfielder, White appeared in Major League Baseball for all or parts of three seasons (1963–65) for the Houston Colt .45s/Astros.
- He is the son of the late Jo-Jo White, a former MLB outfielder and coach.
- Mike White threw and batted right-handed, stood 5 feet 8 inches (1.73 m) tall and weighed 160 pounds (73 kg). White attended American River Junior College, Sacramento, California, and signed with the Cleveland Indians in 1958; his father was a Cleveland scout and coach that season.
- But White suffered a serious knee injury in a 1958 intrasquad game and his career was nearly ended before it began.
- Despite constant therapy, he ran with a pronounced limp.
- White was able to play 126 minor league games in 1959 and 127 more in 1960.
- During the latter season, he batted .304 with 132 hits for the Reading Indians of the Class A Eastern League.
- But the Indians released him on December 8, 1960. However, baseball was in the process of adding four new expansion teams during the 1961 and 1962 seasons.
- White kept his career going by signing with the Los Angeles Angels' minor league organization for 1961.
- He moved from third base to the outfield and later became a second baseman as well.
- After one year in the Angels' farm system, he was drafted by another expansion team, the Colt .45s, during the winter before their debut 1962 season.
- White batted .294 and .324 in successive seasons in the high minors before making his debut with the Colt .45s in September 1963.
- He collected two singles in seven at bats over three MLB games. White spent the entire 1964 campaign with Houston, primarily as a center fielder, and batted .271 with 76 hits in 89 games.
- But in 1965, White appeared in only eight games for the renamed Astros, mostly as a pinch hitter.
- He was hitless in nine at bats and returned to the minor leagues for the remainder of his career.
- He retired in 1969.
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