It was just unfortunate that it was Whitey.
The funny thing is, Whitey's look didn't really change at all, just his clothes.
Which one is Jim Leyland, and which is Whitey Herzog? A. Well, I'm not going to tell you.
The last Cardinals manager to win the World Series before Tony La Russa was Whitey Herzog, who got his first managerial job with the Rangers in 1973.
But by the late nineteen-eighties the Boston Mafia had more or less disappeared, and the new locus of criminal power was Whitey Bulger and Steve Flemmi.
The last major league pitcher to win more than 14 games after a two-year absence was Whitey Ford, who was 18-6 in 1953 for the Yankees.
The occasion was Whitey Ford Day at Yankee Stadium and the No. 16 was painted near the first- and third-base foul lines -- Ford's number, the only Yankees number retired in honor of a pitcher.
And finally there was Whitey from Queens and Scooter from Brooklyn to remind the throng that this historic stadium is also just another city playground, a green space amid urban concrete where adults play a children's game.
"Look, that's Whitey Bulger!" they exclaimed.
