2009; although he fell short in final voting, he received the most votes of any player whose career ended before 1940. In 2010, the Nineteenth Century Committee of the Society for American Baseball Research named White the year's Overlooked 19th Century Baseball Legend — a 19th-century player, manager, executive or other baseball personality not yet inducted into the Hall of Fame. On December 3, 2012 the National Baseball Hall of Fame announced that he was elected to the Hall of Fame by the new Pre-Integration Era Committee (pre-1947 era), receiving 14 out of 16 votes; he and two others elected by the Committee were inducted on July 28, 2013, with his acceptance speech given by his great-grandson Jerry Watkins, the son of White's grandson Daniel. With over 166 years between his birth and date of induction (and nearly three-quarters of a century after his death), White is the "oldest" person ever inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. See also List of Major League Baseball progressive career hits leaders List of Major League Baseball career hits leaders List of Major League Baseball progressive career home runs leaders List of Major League Baseball career runs scored leaders List of Major League Baseball batting champions List of Major League Baseball annual runs batted in leaders List of Major League Baseball annual triples leaders List of Major League Baseball player-managers References External links Baseball Hall of Fame biography NPR: How History Created the Cult of the Catcher – historian Peter Morris discusses White's career and the Veterans Committee deliberations SABR biography as Overlooked 19th Century Legend ESPN biography MLB.com: Hall inductees White, O'Day have intertwined history Retrosheet 1847 births 1939 deaths National Baseball Hall of Fame inductees Major League Baseball catchers Major League Baseball third basemen Cleveland Forest Citys (NABBP) players Cleveland Forest Citys players Boston Red Stockings players Chicago White Stockings players Boston Red Caps players Cincinnati Reds (1876–1879) players Buffalo Bisons (NL) players Detroit Wolverines players Pittsburgh Alleghenys players Buffalo Bisons (PL) players Baseball players from Buffalo, New York 19th-century baseball players National League batting champions National League RBI champions Cleveland Forest Citys managers Cincinnati Reds (1876–1880) managers Major League Baseball player-managers Minor league baseball managers Elmira Gladiators players Aurora University People from Steuben County, New York People from Mendota, Illinois Flat Earth proponents