Torii Hunter
Torii Hunter
Torii Kedar Hunteris an American former professional baseball center fielder and right fielder. He played in Major League Baseballfor the Minnesota Twins, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim and Detroit Tigers from 1997 through 2015. Hunter was a five-time All-Star, won nine consecutive Gold Glove Awards as a center fielder and was a two-time Silver Slugger Award winner...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth18 July 1975
CityPine Bluff, AR
CountryUnited States of America
I think about what his kids are going through more than anything. It's killing me right now. It's eating me up.
I thought I had a shot at it.
(Robertson) was throwing well and we couldn't pick up the ball early because of the shadows. But that's only our excuse, we didn't have any trouble seeing the ball. The second time around we were hitting the but we didn't have any luck.
If the guy stays healthy, we're going to win. I'll put my money on that. If he stays healthy and hits, then we're going to win.
He loved to talk to you. He helped the younger guys -- especially the younger black players.
I yell and scream when something good happens. I jog around on one leg, ... You watch them on TV and you have things you wanted to say to them and I haven't had a chance to talk to them face to face. I miss the clubhouse. They miss me, I hope.
He was throwing gas. He was throwing 96, 97 miles an hour.
He'd say: 'Get up there and go play this game. Forget about it. Just have fun and keep playing this game that I taught you.
He'd look at all of my box scores. If I went 4-for-4, he'd call me up and congratulate me. Or if I'd go 0-for-3, he'd call me up and get on to me.
When we came up, we were always told go the opposite field no matter what. If you didn't go the opposite field when I first came up, you weren't going to play. It was said you had to force inside pitches to right field to stay in the lineup.
We're going to have to try to maintain and not get too far behind before we get hot. It's too early to be down.
We couldn't pick up the ball early because of the shadows, but that's just an excuse. He was throwing well.
To black athletes, he was an icon. Everybody looked up to him. It's Dave Winfield, Andre Dawson and Kirby Puckett for black athletes (to look up to). It's tough to swallow.
We'll try to clear up some things, kind of throw all that out of the way. I'm sure it's gone, but we're going to reiterate it. I don't think we have too many bad guys here.