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Big_E
06-04-07, 05:38 PM
OK...this may be a sensitive question, since it involves race, but really, there's nothing behind it except trivia...

Someone at work posed the question: Who was the last team to field an all-white team in the World Series? His answer was the Yankees, in 1978.

But when I actually looked it up, I couldn't verify that...the closest I could find was in Game 2 that year (Link) (http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1978/B10110LAN1978.htm) when the Yankees fielding included:

Thomasson, CF
Pinella, RF
Spencer, 1B
Doyle, 2B
Dent, SS
Nettles, 3B
Munson, C
Hunter, SP

But...Roy White in LF. (Who was not "white").

So without turning this into a discussion on race, who WAS the last WS team to field (DH not included in "field") an all-white team?
Paiglee
06-04-07, 08:18 PM
OK...this may be a sensitive question, since it involves race, but really, there's nothing behind it except trivia...

Someone at work posed the question: Who was the last team to field an all-white team in the World Series? His answer was the Yankees, in 1978.

But when I actually looked it up, I couldn't verify that...the closest I could find was in Game 2 that year (Link) (http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1978/B10110LAN1978.htm) when the Yankees fielding included:

Thomasson, CF
Pinella, RF
Spencer, 1B
Doyle, 2B
Dent, SS
Nettles, 3B
Munson, C
Hunter, SP

But...Roy White in LF. (Who was not "white").

So without turning this into a discussion on race, who WAS the last WS team to field (DH not included in "field") an all-white team?

Where was Chambliss???
Big_E
06-04-07, 10:03 PM
Where was Chambliss???

On the bench that game, apparently.
As was Mickey Rivers.
JL25and3
06-04-07, 10:24 PM
OK...this may be a sensitive question, since it involves race, but really, there's nothing behind it except trivia...

Someone at work posed the question: Who was the last team to field an all-white team in the World Series? His answer was the Yankees, in 1978.

But when I actually looked it up, I couldn't verify that...the closest I could find was in Game 2 that year (Link) (http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1978/B10110LAN1978.htm) when the Yankees fielding included:

Thomasson, CF
Pinella, RF
Spencer, 1B
Doyle, 2B
Dent, SS
Nettles, 3B
Munson, C
Hunter, SP

But...Roy White in LF. (Who was not "white").

So without turning this into a discussion on race, who WAS the last WS team to field (DH not included in "field") an all-white team?I think it's a trick question, and a rather elegant one. You've got eight Caucasians and Roy White - obviously, an all-White team.
JL25and3
06-04-07, 10:24 PM
On the bench that game, apparently.
As was Mickey Rivers.Against the righty Hooton, no less. I have no explanation.
JL25and3
06-04-07, 10:38 PM
But for a more traditional answer, there's game 7 of the 1975 World Series. The Red Sox starting lineup:

Carbo, lf
Doyle, 2b
Yastrzemski, 1b
Fisk, c
Lynn, cf
Petrocelli, 3b
Evans, rf
Burleson, ss
Lee, p

As far as I can tell, Cecil Cooper was the only American black on the team. I guess Latinos don't qualify as "white," though on the Sox they ranged in skin tone from the very light Diego Segui to the very dark Rogelio Moret.
johnnyyankee
06-05-07, 09:19 AM
OK...this may be a sensitive question, since it involves race, but really, there's nothing behind it except trivia...

Someone at work posed the question: Who was the last team to field an all-white team in the World Series? His answer was the Yankees, in 1978.

But when I actually looked it up, I couldn't verify that...the closest I could find was in Game 2 that year (Link) (http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1978/B10110LAN1978.htm) when the Yankees fielding included:

Thomasson, CF
Pinella, RF
Spencer, 1B
Doyle, 2B
Dent, SS
Nettles, 3B
Munson, C
Hunter, SP

But...Roy White in LF. (Who was not "white").

So without turning this into a discussion on race, who WAS the last WS team to field (DH not included in "field") an all-white team?


Jay Johnstone in OF, not Roy White..
Big_E
06-05-07, 09:57 AM
Jay Johnstone in OF, not Roy White..

Check the boxscore I linked to (repeated below).

Johnstone did not play in that game.

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1978/B10110LAN1978.htm
johnnyyankee
06-05-07, 10:02 AM
Check the boxscore I linked to (repeated below).

Johnstone did not play in that game.

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1978/B10110LAN1978.htm


I have heard this question before. I believe the question is supposed to be: Who were the nine white guys on the field for the final out of the World Series? I don't know how to find the boxscore but check it out. That might be it. :dunno:
Big_E
06-05-07, 10:33 AM
I have heard this question before. I believe the question is supposed to be: Who were the nine white guys on the field for the final out of the World Series? I don't know how to find the boxscore but check it out. That might be it. :dunno:

Baseball-reference.com has links to all the boxscores.
I can't confirm that it was the Yankees that this guy said it was, again unless it's a trick and you count Roy White.
hardrain
06-05-07, 11:40 AM
Where was Chambliss???
Chambliss, Rivers and Randolph were all injured that game.
Dave Visbeck
07-29-07, 09:13 PM
But for a more traditional answer, there's game 7 of the 1975 World Series. The Red Sox starting lineup:

Carbo, lf
Doyle, 2b
Yastrzemski, 1b
Fisk, c
Lynn, cf
Petrocelli, 3b
Evans, rf
Burleson, ss
Lee, p

As far as I can tell, Cecil Cooper was the only American black on the team. I guess Latinos don't qualify as "white," though on the Sox they ranged in skin tone from the very light Diego Segui to the very dark Rogelio Moret.

Other Latinos were Tiant and Beniquez. African-American Jim Rice was on the regular season team. Jim should of been there for the series too ... but unfortunately he suffered that broken bone in his hand. Was it the hand -- or was it the wrist ... when getting hit by a pitch in September. Was it a Detroit pitcher that got him? I'm having trouble remembering right now. I only remember he was hitting over .350 against the Tigers that season. :(
Dave Visbeck
07-29-07, 09:31 PM
OK...this may be a sensitive question, since it involves race, but really, there's nothing behind it except trivia...

Someone at work posed the question: Who was the last team to field an all-white team in the World Series? His answer was the Yankees, in 1978.

But when I actually looked it up, I couldn't verify that...the closest I could find was in Game 2 that year (Link) (http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1978/B10110LAN1978.htm) when the Yankees fielding included:

Thomasson, CF
Pinella, RF
Spencer, 1B
Doyle, 2B
Dent, SS
Nettles, 3B
Munson, C
Hunter, SP

But...Roy White in LF. (Who was not "white").

So without turning this into a discussion on race, who WAS the last WS team to field (DH not included in "field") an all-white team?

Carbo LF
Doyle 2B
Yaz 1B
Pudge C
Lynn CF
Petrocelli 3B
Dewey RF
Rooster SS
Lee P


Game 7 in 1975 is the honest answer ... starting line-up ... no African Americans and no Latinos. :) JL always knows his stuff.
ymike673
07-30-07, 07:02 AM
Chambliss, Rivers and Randolph were all injured that game.

Randolph was injured the last Friday of the regular season in 1978 and missed the entire post season which is why he didn't play in that game.
JL25and3
07-30-07, 12:27 PM
Randolph was injured the last Friday of the regular season in 1978 and missed the entire post season which is why he didn't play in that game. And which is why any of us has ever heard of Brian Doyle.
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