During his Major League Baseball career, Husting played with four different teams between 1900 and 1902.

Husting entered the National League in 1900 with the Pittsburgh Pirates, playing for them one year before joining the young American League with the Milwaukee Brewers (1901), Boston Americans (1902) and Philadelphia Athletics (1902).

He went 14–5 for the 1902 Athletics team who won the AL pennant, in a staff that included Rube Waddell (24–7) and Eddie Plank (20–15).

Unfortunately, the Athletics did not have the chance to face the NL Champion Pittsburgh Pirates for the World Championship because there was none in 1902.

In 1933, he was appointed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt as United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, an office he occupied until 1944 before resuming the private practice of law.