He was the manager for the Minor League Baseball Spokane Indians in the Texas Rangers organization for 10 years.

Hulett played for the South Florida Bulls baseball team in 1979 before transferring to Miami Dade College's North Campus.

Hulett was picked in the secondary phase of the 1980 free agent draft by the Chicago White Sox and signed in June 1980.

[6] Hulett was placed on the 15-day disabled list after the incident; at that time, there was no provision in baseball's rules for bereavement leave.

[7] The situation was an impetus for the subsequent adoption of the two Family Leave lists—the bereavement list and the paternity list—adopted by Major League Baseball eventually.