Sam Esposito, the North Carolina State baseball coach who played in the 1959 World Series for the White Sox, has died. He was 81.
The school says on its website he died Monday at a nursing home in Newland. A cause of death was not given.
Esposito played parts of 10 seconds with the Sox and Kansas City Athletics as a utility infielder, posting a .207 career average with 27 doubles, 8 home runs and 73 RBIs. He played in two games of the 1959 World Series, going 0-for-2 with a strikeout.
Esposito won 513 games for the Wolfpack and led them to four Atlantic Coast Conference baseball titles and third place in the 1968 College World Series.