Hurdle played for the Kansas City Royals, Cincinnati Reds, New York Mets, and St. Louis Cardinals, and managed the Colorado Rockies and Pittsburgh Pirates.

Labeled a "phenom" by Sports Illustrated at age twenty,[1] Hurdle played 515 games at the major league level.

Clint Hurdle is named for his father, Clinton, who played collegiate baseball for Ferris State University.

When Hurdle was four years old, the family moved from Michigan to Florida so his father could take a job at the Kennedy Space Center.

He made his major league debut with the Royals in 1977, and in 1978 was featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated on March 20 with the headline: "This Year's Phenom.

Hurdle had his best year in 1980 starting 109 regular season games in right field for the American League pennant winning Royals.

Hurdle also played three different seasons of winter ball for Tiburones de La Guaira of the Venezuelan Professional Baseball League.

Hurdle's Rockies then beat the Philadelphia Phillies in the Division Series, sweeping them in three games to force a match-up with their rival Arizona Diamondbacks in the NLCS.

The Rockies continued their improbable streak by sweeping Arizona in four games to win the first pennant in team history and reach the 2007 World Series.

Although Hurdle was offered a "significant role" within the Rockies organization, he decided to join the MLB Network as a studio analyst for the remainder of 2009.

[4] In 2010, Hurdle helped the Rangers to their first American League pennant in franchise history before losing to the San Francisco Giants in the 2010 World Series.

At the 2012 All-Star break, Hurdle had led the Pirates to a 48–37 record, leading the NL Central division by one game over the Cincinnati Reds.

In 2014, the Pirates would again clinch a playoff berth with a record of 88 wins and 74 losses to make a second straight appearance in the Wild Card game.

The Pirates lost the 2014 National League Wild Card Game to the eventual World Series champion San Francisco Giants.