Batting average .226 Role Baseball player Name Ken Hunt | Runs batted in 111 Home runs 33 | |
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Died June 8, 1997, Gardena, California, United States Children Butch Patrick, Kerry Lynn Sprick | ||
Kenneth Lawrence Hunt (July 13, 1934 – June 8, 1997) was an American professional baseball player who appeared in six Major League seasons for the New York Yankees, Los Angeles Angels and Washington Senators (1959–64). An outfielder, the native of Grand Forks, North Dakota, threw and batted right-handed, stood 6 feet 1 inch (1.85 m) and weighed 205 pounds (93 kg).
After two trials with the 1959–60 Yankees, Hunt was selected by the new Los Angeles Angels franchise in the 1960 Major League Baseball expansion draft. He was in the Opening Day starting lineup for the first game in the Angels' history, playing center field on April 11, 1961 in a 7-2 road victory over the Baltimore Orioles.
Playing at the Angels' cozy Wrigley Field home park in 1961, Hunt bashed 25 home runs and knocked in 84 RBI in 149 games played — one of five Angels to crack the 20 home run mark in their maiden American League season. However, surgery to repair an aneurysm near his throwing shoulder ruined his 1962 season, and Hunt never regained his productive stroke.
All told, he appeared in 310 MLB games, and batted .226 with 177 hits.
He was the stepfather of child actor Butch Patrick (Eddie Munster on "The Munsters") and appeared in one episode in 1965 titled "Herman the Rookie".
Hunt is buried at Holy Cross Cemetery in Fargo, North Dakota several feet away from Roger Maris, briefly his teammate on the 1960 Yankees.