David Hulse (baseball)

David Lindsey Hulse (February 25, 1968), is a retired Major League Baseball player who played outfielder from 1992-1996 for the Texas Rangers and Milwaukee Brewers.

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Hulse played collegiate baseball at Schreiner University and was drafted by the Rangers in the thirteenth round of the 1990 amateur draft.

Hulse’s promising playing career was ended on September 7, 1996, while he was a member of the Milwaukee Brewers, in a game against his former team, the Texas Rangers. Hulse was on third base and attempted to score on a ground ball toward first base. When the throw came home, Hulse tried to slide around catcher Dave Valle and touch the outside of the plate. Valle, however, was firmly planted at the plate, and the two collided. In the collision, Hulse’s humerus was forced into his chest, causing significant damage and severely limiting his arm movement. He attempted a long rehab, but no teams were interested in signing him.

Hulse is a fixture in two of baseball’s more comical moments, both occurring while he was with the Rangers and both of which are often replayed on reviews of lighter moments in baseball. He is best known for an at-bat against the California Angels on October 3, 1992. He fouled four pitches in a row into the same area of the Angels' dugout; by the time he fouled off his third pitch, the entire Angels' dugout had concentrated themselves away from the edge of the dugout. Hulse ended the AB by grounding out, after which the Angels players went back to the end of dugout they had emptied.

The second was in a game against the Cleveland Indians on May 26, 1993. Hulse was in center field when the Indians' Carlos Martinez hit a ball to deep right-center field that bounced of the head of right fielder Jose Canseco and over the fence for a home run. Hulse can be seen laughing and joking with Canseco and, apparently, explaining to him what had just happened.