Trying to knock out the white areas, is there an "easy" way?

I created a graphic for a softball team that looks pretty traditional to how baseball/softball graphics generally look with the bold black lines and such. I have a lot of white areas which are suppose to be knocked out so the shirts color can show through. Currently, most of those white areas areas are white objects overtop of colored objects. I know how to knock them out of the colored objects using the pathfinder tool but this time, I just have soooo much! Its just twisting my mind trying to figure how to knock out of what layer and object and so on. I know to convert all the text and strokes to fills which helps a lot, but is there any quicker or easier way to have all those white objects knockout the colored ones? My brain is hurting with this one!

Generally speaking knockout (or KO) means no printing, or white. I think what you want is for the elements that are colored "White" or 0,0,0,0 or 255, 255, 255 (RGB) to change to [None]. You can select one object with the fill color White, then go to Select> Same Fill Color> and change them all to None. Another way to do this is to select all the White fills and change them to Overprint: Window> Attributes> Overprint Fill. You will need to go to View> Overprint Preview. Note some PDF viewers or rips might not accurately display or print overprinting White, so changing them to None is usually the better way. If you can post a screen shot of your work, we might be able to give you more suggestions.
You might also look into Compound Paths.

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