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Bill Hunter (Canadian Football)
Bill Hunter or Billy Hunter may refer to: Sports figures American * Bill Hunter (catcher) (1855–1918), baseball catcher * Bill Hunter (outfielder) (1887–1934), American baseball player * Billy Hunter (basketball) (born 1942), former National Basketball Players Association executive * Billy Hunter (baseball) (born 1928), MLB All-Star shortstop and manager Scottish * Bill Hunter (footballer, born 1900), Scottish football defender * Billy Hunter (footballer) (1885–1937), Scottish professional football player and manager Other * Bill Hunter (ice hockey) (1920–2002), Canadian hockey owner, general manager, coach * Bill Hunter (New Zealand footballer), New Zealand international football (soccer) player Other people * Bill Hunter (politician) (1920–2015), Trotskyist leader in Britain and an International Socialist League member * Bill Hunter (actor) (1940–2011), Australian actor * Bill Hunter (journalist) William Bradley Hunter (November 2, 1928 – April 23, 1964) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Hunter (catcher)
William F. Hunter (1855 – April 12, 1918) was a professional baseball player who played catcher in the Major Leagues for the 1884 Louisville Eclipse The Louisville Colonels were a Major League Baseball team that also played in the American Association (AA) throughout that league's ten-year existence from 1882 until 1891. They were known as the Louisville Eclipse from 1882 to 1884, and as th .... He played in the minors from 1883 to 1887. External links 1855 births 1918 deaths 19th-century baseball players Baseball people from Ontario Canadian expatriate baseball players in the United States Major League Baseball catchers Louisville Eclipse players Hamilton Clippers players Denver Mountain Lions players Denver Mountaineers players Leavenworth Soldiers players Duluth Freezers players East Saginaw Grays players Major League Baseball players from Canada {{US-baseball-catcher-1850s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Hunter (outfielder)
William Ellsworth Hunter (July 8, 1887 – April 10, 1934) was a Major League Baseball outfielder An outfielder is a person playing in one of the three defensive positions in baseball or softball, farthest from the batter. These defenders are the left fielder, the center fielder, and the right fielder. As an outfielder, their duty is to cat ... who played for one season. He played in 21 games for the Cleveland Naps during the 1912 season. His twin brother, George Hunter, also played professional baseball. References External links 1887 births 1934 deaths Cleveland Naps players Major League Baseball outfielders Towson Tigers baseball players Charlotte Hornets (baseball) players Wilkes-Barre Barons (baseball) players Keokuk Indians players Rock Island Islanders players Brandon Angels players Flint Vehicles players Des Moines Boosters players Hamilton Tigers (baseball) players Baseball players from Buffalo, New York {{US-baseball-outfielder-1880s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Hunter (basketball)
George William Hunter (born November 5, 1942) is an American former executive director of the National Basketball Players Association (NBPA), the players' union of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He is also a former professional football player who was a wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL) for the Washington Redskins and Miami Dolphins. Hunter played baseball as a child, and helped lead his team to the Little League World Series in 1955. He graduated from Delaware Township High School in Delaware Township (now Cherry Hill), New Jersey, and played college football for the Syracuse Orange. While a student-athlete at Syracuse University, "he helped organize the school's boycott of Southern schools whose stadiums were segregated."Wise, Mike"The Street Fighter Who Galls the N.B.A." ''New York Times'', August 2, 1998. In the NFL, he had one career reception which went for a touchdown. He caught a 29-yard touchdown pass from Dick Shiner in the fourth quart ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Hunter (baseball)
Gordon William Hunter (born June 4, 1928) is a retired American shortstop, coach and manager in Major League Baseball. Playing career Born in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, Hunter was listed as tall and . He threw and batted right-handed. After attending Indiana University of Pennsylvania and Penn State, Hunter was signed by the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1948. He was sold to the St. Louis Browns of the American League (AL) on October 14, 1952, for $150,000 after leading the Texas League in fielding and stolen bases. Hunter was the starting shortstop for the last Browns club in 1953 and the first modern Baltimore Orioles team when the Brownies moved to Maryland in 1954. For the remainder of his career, however, he was a second-string infielder for the New York Yankees, Kansas City Athletics and Cleveland Indians. Hunter batted .219 with 16 home runs and 144 RBI in 630 games over his six-year (1953–58) AL career. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Hunter (footballer, Born 1900)
William Hunter (16 August 1900 – after 1929) was a Scottish professional footballer who played as a centre half or left back. Born in Cardenden, Fife, Hunter began his football career with local club Bowhill Juniors before turning professional with Birmingham in 1921. He never established himself as a first-team player with the club, but was a mainstay of the reserve team and performed solidly when given a game in the First Division. He joined Grimsby Town in early 1927, spending only a few months with the club and making just six appearances before returning to the Midlands to sign for Coventry City. The following year he moved to Walsall, and in late 1929 moved on again, this time to Torquay United, before retiring at the end of the 1929–30 season. He was nicknamed "Sailor", because of his service in the Royal Navy The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force. Although warships were used by English and Scottish kings from the early medieval ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Hunter (footballer)
William Hunter (2 April 1885 – 1937) was a Scottish professional football player and manager. He managed the Dutch national side, Austrian club side Hakoah Vienna, Swiss club side Lausanne Sports, the Turkey national team and Galatasaray. As a player he played for Millwall Athletic and Bolton Wanderers. Honours Player Bolton Wanderers *Second Division: 1908–09 ** automatic promotion: 1910–11 Manager Dordrecht * KNVB Cup: 1913–14 ** runners-up: 1912–13 Netherlands * Coupe Vanden Abeele: 1914 * Rotterdamsch Beker: 1914 Hakoah Vienna * Austrian League runners-up: 1921–22 Lausanne Sports * Swiss Serie A West runners-up: 1922–23 Galatasaray * Atatürk Gazi Cup: 1928 Events January * January – British bacteriologist Frederick Griffith reports the results of Griffith's experiment, indirectly proving the existence of DNA. * January 1 – Eastern Bloc emigration and defection: Boris Bazhan ... * Istanbul League: 1924–25, 1925 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Hunter (ice Hockey)
William Dickenson "Wild Bill" Hunter, (May 5, 1920 – December 16, 2002) was a Canadian ice hockey player, general manager and coach. Hunter was involved in hockey, Canadian football, baseball, softball and curling, but he is best known for founding the Western Hockey League (WHL), being a key player in the upstart World Hockey Association (WHA) and for his efforts to bring professional hockey to previously overlooked Western Canadian cities, especially in Edmonton and (unsuccessfully) in Saskatoon. Early years Hunter was born in Saskatoon, the first of ten children and founded his first competitive sports team when he was 18. Hunter's Saskatoon Dukes football club eventually became the Saskatoon Hilltops. Hunter then attended Notre Dame College in Wilcox, Saskatchewan, from 1938 to 1940, where he managed the college baseball team. Following the outbreak of the Second World War Hunter left school to join the Royal Canadian Air Force and served for about four years as a pilot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Hunter (New Zealand Footballer)
William Hunter is an association football player who represented New Zealand at international level. Hunter made his full All Whites debut in a 5–0 win over Fiji on 17 September 1968 and ended his international playing career with six A-international caps to his credit, his final cap an appearance in a 0–2 loss to Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ... on 1 October 1969. Hunter played two games (one for Auckland and one for New Zealand) in 1967 against the Manchester United team that toured New Zealand that year. The Manchester United team included the “holy trinity” of players - George Best, Bobby Charlton and Denis Law. Hunter has 3 sons, Todd, Matthew and Daniel. Matthew and Daniel also represented New Zealand, playing soccer for the NZ Combined S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Hunter (politician)
Bill Hunter (1920 – 9 July 2015) was a Trotskyist activist in Britain and a leader of the International Socialist League. Life Hunter began his revolutionary career as a member of the Independent Labour Party in World War II, when he was a part of the circle around the ''Free Expression'' discussion magazine in that group. With the decline of the ILP, Hunter became a Trotskyist and joined the Revolutionary Communist Party in which he played a leading role in its final period. With the collapse of the RCP, Hunter joined the Gerry Healy-led group known as The Club, although he had not belonged to Healy's faction in the RCP. He remained a leading member of Healy's groups until the collapse of the organisation. When Healy's Workers Revolutionary Party split in 1985, Hunter joined Cliff Slaughter's anti-Healy faction, around what was soon renamed the '' Workers Press'' newspaper. In this group, he became attracted to the faction of international Trotskyism led by Nahuel Moreno ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Hunter (actor)
William John Hunter (27 February 194021 May 2011) was an Australian actor of film, stage and television, who was also prominent as a voice-over artist. He appeared in more than 60 films and won two AFI Awards. He was also a recipient of the Centenary Medal. Early life Hunter was born in Ballarat, Victoria, the son of William and Francie Hunter. He had a brother, John, and a sister, Marie Ann. During his teens, Hunter was a champion swimmer, and briefly held a world record for the 100 yards freestyle until his record was broken by John Devitt in the very next heat 10 minutes later.Atterton, Margot; Alan Veitch: ''The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Australian Showbiz'' (1984). Hunter qualified for the Australian swimming team for the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia before a bout of meningitis ended his Olympic hopes. Career Hunter made his film debut as an extra in 1957 film '' The Shiralee''. An introduction to Ava Gardner saw him gain a job as an extra and swimming ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Hunter (journalist)
William Bradley Hunter (November 2, 1928 – April 23, 1964) was an American crime reporter for the Long Beach, California '' Independent Press-Telegram''. Hunter's 16-page special on the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald by Jack Ruby, "Three Days in Dallas", was awarded the 1964 "Spot News Reporting" award of the California Newspaper Publishers Association's "Better Newspaper Contest". A native of Wichita Falls, Texas, Hunter had previously worked as a court reporter there for five years before becoming a crime reporter. On March 22, 1964, Hunter wrote a story for the ''Press-Telegram'' saying that Oswald had "assuredly" killed Kennedy.Tim Grobarty, ''Press-Telegram'', November 16, 2013What’s Hot: Long Beach reporter Bill Hunter was in the midst of the JFK conspiracy/ref> Death On April 23, 1964 at around 2 am, Hunter was fatally shot while sitting at his desk in the press room at the Long Beach police headquarters by police officer, C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
