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Missouri in 2004-05, her junior year, and later played in international competition. She was named Mizzou Women’s Athlete of the Decade and awarded a spot in the Mizzou Athletics Hall of Fame. Buddy’s nephew Sta Sergeant Jason A. Parker, his sister’s son and a ur-time Olympian, won the Gold Medal in the air-ri e shooting World Cup in 2003, setting a new world’s record in the process with a score of 702.5 out of a possible 709.
Buddy Hunter’s own daughter, Cari, played some softball; she worked for her mother running a Curves franchise but raising three children on her own while getting a master’s degree in corporate leadership kept her busy. She took a position with Berkshire Hathaway.
His oldest son, Casey, earned a full scholarship to play baseball at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, but his engineering curriculum prevented him from pursu- ing the game further. In 2014 he was running the Toyota forklift distributor in Nebraska. e Hunters’ youngest son, Andrew, is a professional golf instructor.
Buddy Hunter was pleased to be included in the 100th anniversary of Fenway Park celebration in 2012, and remains a Red Sox (and Patriots and Celtics) fan to this day.
Sources
Interviews with Buddy Hunter, August 24, 2005, and August 28 and 30, 2014. All quotations from Hunter are from his interviews unless otherwise indicated.
orn, John, Pete Palmer, and Michael Gershman, Total Baseball, Seventh Edition (Kingston New York: Total Sports Publishing, 2001).
baseball-reference.com. retrosheet.org.
Notes
1 Author interview with Buddy Hunter on August 30, 2014. e rst-round pick in 1969 was Noel Jenke, who was drafted by three pro sports teams — the Minnesota Vikings, the Chicago Blackhawks, and the Boston Red Sox. He signed with Boston, and played 21⁄2 years in the system, but didn’t do as well as hoped. He did reach the top ranks in football, though; Jenke played four seasons in the NFL.
2 ere were actually only two double plays, in 10 innings.