Herb Hunter (baseball)
Herbert Harrison Hunter was an American utility infielder-outfielder in Major League Baseball who played parts of four seasons between 1916 and 1921. Listed at, 165 lb., Hunter batted left-handed and threw right-handed. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts.
Early career
After making his debut for the New York Giants in 1916, Hunter was soon traded by the Giants, along with Larry Doyle and Merwin Jacobson, to the Chicago Cubs in exchange for Heinie Zimmerman and Mickey Doolan. He played two games with the Cubs in 1916 and another three in 1917. During World War I, Hunter served in the United States Navy, missing both the 1918 and 1919 seasons.Post-World War I
After the war, Hunter surfaced for another brief major league stint in 1920, this time for the Boston Red Sox. Later that year, Hunter organized a team of minor and major league players — dubbed the Hunter All-Americans — to go on a barnstorming tour of Japan, the first of three such trips he would put together.In 1921, Hunter made his last big league appearance, a nine-game stint with the St. Louis Cardinals during which he served mostly as a pinch runner.