I think the "false memory" that Craig White was signed as an overseas player may have its origin in Yorkshire's earlier interest in the Western Australia bowler Ian Carmichael.
Carmichael had some brief success in the mid-80s and, because he was born in Hull, there was some talk in the newspapers and cricket magazines of Yorkshire signing him. Unlike Craig White, he had already played state cricket and was intending to carry on doing so. I think that meant he needed to play English cricket as an overseas player if he wasn't going to mess up his status in Australian cricket, which may have been why Yorkshire didn't approach him.
Oddly enough, he played twice against Yorkshire when he spent a brief spell with Leics in 1984.
I can't for the life of me remember this Carmichael chap but I think his not playing for Yorkshire because he'd played for Western Australia is a bit of a red herring. He could have done a ''Symonds'' for at least one season and if he'd been a true Yorkie he'd have given up the lure of Perth for Brandsholme every day of the week!
Sorry, Carmichael played for South Australia, not WA. My mistake. And I would stress that I only really remember this as speculation in the newspapers. I don't know if it reached the level of the Yorkshire committee or whether any approach was actually ever made.
Some of his team mates who couldn't pronounce the word Carmichael are believed to have called him "Charabanc".
Actually, looking at some of his figures, Cafeteria Carmichael would have been appropriate: help yourself!
She was actually born in southern France and was originally named Michelle Carre. The family then moved to Hull during the 1960's grape growing boom on the Holderness plain. In order to avoid British pre EU labour laws the family changed their name to a more Yorkshire sounding ''Carmicheal'' and to further fool the authorities their daughter became their son and a new ''birth certificate'' written on the plain side of a packet of Daz was enough to fool the Australian authorities when the global cooling of the 70's killed the wine industry of Holderness and the family located to South Australia via Fremantle and Perth.
Carmichael then successfully avoided his ''little secret'' by refusing to shower, which went largely unnoticed in Australia. His average performances were not missed by Yorkshire though and the great Raymondo said ''lets call his bluff and see if he's man enough to play for Yorkshire.''
Carmichael's form then got progressively worse and Yorkshire could no longer afford him and so he ended up at Leicester where he looked just like everyone else in the shower!
He/she retired from first class cricket shortly after but continued to turn out for Manly each weekend whilst working four night a week at a bar in the Kings Cross area of Sydney.
He/she recently applied for the position of ''charabanc'' to the Bangladshi national team but withdrew the application when she/he saw another charabanc job available in England.
All the above is true because I read it on Wikipedia!
I'd best just add that any similarity to anyone alive or dead is totally unintentional!