Anthony Darrin Horton (born December 6, 1944) is a retired American Major League Baseball player.
A first baseman who batted and threw right-handed, Horton played for the Boston Red Sox (1964–1967) and Cleveland Indians (1967–1970).
He asked for another "Folly Floater," Hamilton threw it and Horton again popped it foul behind home plate, but this time into Thurman Munson's mitt for an out.
His playing career ended unexpectedly on August 28, after he took himself out in the fifth inning of the second game of a doubleheader against the California Angels.
His manager, Alvin Dark, in his 1980 book When in Doubt, Fire the Manager, would call Horton's sudden exit “the most sorrowful incident I was ever involved in, in my baseball career.”[4] In his career, Horton batted .268 with 76 home runs and 297 RBIs in 636 games played.