Frank White
Frank White
Frank White, Jr.is an American former Major League Baseballplayer, and coach for the Kansas City Royals and their AA affiliate, the Wichita Wranglers. He is one of only three MLB players, along with Ron Washington and U L Washington, who were products of the Royals Academy. He is also a former color commentator for Royals telecasts. He currently serves as the first base coach of the Kansas City T-Bones of the American Association of Independent Professional Baseball. He was elected...
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth4 September 1950
CityGreenville, MS
In times like these, guys try too hard to make routine plays. Calm down. Make those. And let your pitching and defense carry you.
It's a different ball game when the season starts. It's for real, and it counts. The guys in spring training don't feel the same rush as they do during the regular season.
They've got to understand, late in the game when you can get beat, you want to get beat the other way. You don't want to get beat by a guy's power.
A lot of lawyers are going to be arguing over this. I think what we all would like to see is for the Legislature to meet and pass a comprehensive statute that addresses all these issues, and not an order that was written on an emergency basis.
He doesn't have a lot of range, but he's solid in catching the ball if he gets his glove on it.
You don't really scoreboard watch because the other teams don't put the other games on the scoreboard like we do, ... We basically want to win our game, then when our game is over you ask 'What did they do?'
We have guys that really want to go out and play and they want to win. And they work really hard, so if we put forth our best effort I think we'll be fine.
It's going to be good to get the game back to the way it should be. I think the guys who replaced those guys did the best job they could under the circumstances, but I think it was probably more unfair to the players to have this happen. It's always good when the game comes back to where it should be.
I don't think there's anything one person can do,