The team had announced the day before that White was retiring after working for the Royals for 40 years.
“We didn’t just lose a teammate,” Royals vice president for communications and broadcasting Mike Swanson said, according to The Kansas City Star. “We lost a friend. And he was probably a better friend than he was a teammate, and he was a fantastic teammate.”
White was behind the microphone for the Royals’ only championship, in 1985, as well as the 1980 American League pennant and six division championships.