| Whitey Platt | |||||||||||||||
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| Outfielder | |||||||||||||||
| Born: August 21, 1920 West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S. | |||||||||||||||
| Died: July 27, 1970 (aged 49) West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S. | |||||||||||||||
Batted: Right Threw: Right | |||||||||||||||
| MLB debut | |||||||||||||||
| September 16, 1942, for the Chicago Cubs | |||||||||||||||
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| October 2, 1949, for the St. Louis Browns | |||||||||||||||
| MLB statistics | |||||||||||||||
| Batting average | .255 | ||||||||||||||
| Home runs | 13 | ||||||||||||||
| Runs batted in | 147 | ||||||||||||||
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Mizell George "Whitey" Platt (August 21, 1920 – July 27, 1970) was a right-handed Major League Baseball outfielder who played from 1942 to 1943 for the Chicago Cubs, in 1946 for the Chicago White Sox and from 1948 to 1949 for the St. Louis Browns. He also played on the first official United States national baseball team at the 1938 Amateur World Series.