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The game I'll never forget: Frank White: as told to Al Doyle: former Royals defensive great recalls his club's battles with the Yankees for the A.L. pennant, but Game 6 of the 1985 World Series remains a vivid memory.
PEOPLE REMEMBER ME FOR BEING the first graduate of the Royals Baseball Academy to make it to the majors.
The academy was Mr. Kauffman's (former Royals owner Ewing Kauffman) idea. They took guys who had the raw athletic ability to play baseball. The academy was supposed to be for guys who had limited baseball experience, but most of us had played in high school.
I think Mr. Kauffman wanted to take someone who had no baseball experience and make a major leaguer out of him. We had one guy who was a weightlifter, and he went as high as Class A.
I was called up in 1973 when Fred Patek was hurt. I was a shortstop then. My first major league game was ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, The game I'll never forget: Frank White: as told to Al Doyle: former...