Ronald Kenneth (Ron) Hunt (born February 23, 1941) is an American former professional baseball second baseman.

He played 12 seasons in Major League Baseball from 1963 to 1974 for the New York Mets, Los Angeles Dodgers, San Francisco Giants, Montreal Expos and St. Louis Cardinals.

[2] He graduated from Ritenour High School in Breckenridge Hills, Missouri, where he played football and baseball.

[4] In something that would highlight his career, Stengel had offered a bonus to players willing to be hit by pitches (HBP) if it won a game.

[3] In November 1966, Hunt and Jim Hickman were traded to the Los Angeles Dodgers for Tommy Davis and Derrell Griffith.

[8] After batting .263 during the 1967 season, a year in which he was injured again,[5] and being hit by 10 pitches,[3] Hunt was traded with Nate Oliver to the San Francisco Giants for Tom Haller and Frank Kasheta.

[3] Late in the 1974 season, the struggling Expos, seeking to turn over their roster, made Hunt the first to go by placing him on waivers.

[citation needed] Hunt hit his last major league home run on September 21, 1971, against the Phillies as a member of the Expos at Jarry Park.

[3] Hunt said in a July 2000 interview with Baseball Digest that he really began to get hit by pitches after being traded to San Francisco.

[15] On September 29, 1971, against the Chicago Cubs at Jarry Park, Hunt was hit by a Milt Pappas pitch to give him 50 on the season,[18] obliterating the post-1900 record of 31 by Steve Evans.

[citation needed] Cincinnati Reds manager Sparky Anderson had a similar complaint after Hunt was hit by a Jim McGlothlin pitch on August 7 of that year[citation needed]; the HBP was Hunt's 32nd of the season,[19] which broke the National League record set by Steve Evans of the 1910 St. Louis Cardinals.

[20] On April 29, 1969, Hunt tied a Major League record with three HBPs in a game against the Cincinnati Reds.

It is a live-in training program for 14-18 year olds from the United States, Canada and overseas come to learn and play team baseball, and to prepare them for college.

The players live on site in dorms and play on a field Hunt built, competing in around 40 games over the summer with teams across the Midwest.

[2] Doctors attributed his Parkinson’s-like symptoms to head trauma sustained during his baseball career.