The National Baseball Hall of Fame has announced that Bill White will be the 2026 recipient of the Buck O’Neill Lifetime Achievement Award.

White will be honored as part of the Baseball Hall of Fame on July 25 in Cooperstown, New York.

White was an eight-time All-Star and six-time Gold Glove winner who spent the majority of his career with the St. Louis Cardinals, where he helped them win the 1964 World Series.  After his playing career, White broadcast New York Yankees games for 18 seasons, but left that when the opportunity arose to become the President of the National League.  White served in that capacity from 1989 to 1994 and oversaw the expansion that added the Colorado Rockies and Florida Marlins.

White becomes the seventh winner of the Buck O’Neil Award.  The previous winners were O’Neill (2008), Roland Hemond (2011), Joe Garagiola (2014), Rachel Robinson (2017), David Montgomery (2020), and Carl Erskine (2023).

We here at Notinhalloffame would like to congratulate Bill White for his impending honor.