Mike Hunt (baseball)

Arthur Leland Hunt (October 12, 1907 – November 25, 1996) spent 12 seasons in minor league baseball, playing mostly in the Pacific Coast League. He hit over 200 career home runs. Nicknamed "Mike" and "Old Baggy Pants," he was considered "Seattle’s premier slugger of the 1930s."

He began his career in 1927 with the Pocatello Bannocks and played for the San Bernardino Padres (1929), Tucson Cowboys (1929) and Globe Bears before joining the PCL in 1930. He played for the Mission Reds and San Francisco Seals that year. He was with San Francisco in 1931 and 1932, Mission, San Francisco, the Oakland Oaks and the non-PCL Atlanta Crackers in 1933, San Francisco and the Seattle Indians in 1934 and Seattle from 1935 to 1939. They became the Seattle Rainiers in 1938.

He hit .348 with 116 hits in 89 games in 1929. In 1930, he hit .340 with 23 home runs in 123 games. He hit .303 in 1931 and .316 with 14 home runs in 1932. In 1933, he hit .300 and in 1934, he broke out by hitting .346 with 30 home runs, 223 hits and 42 doubles in 175 games. In 1935, he .330 with 25 home runs, 45 doubles and 211 hits in 163 games. In 1936, he hit .316 with 30 home runs, 50 doubles and 212 hits in 169 games and in 1937, he batted .312 with a career-high 39 home runs with 43 doubles and 202 hits. In 1938, he hit .291 with 13 home runs in 157 games. After hitting .259 with 15 home runs in 121 games in 1939, Hunt's playing career ended. He led the PCL in home runs and RBI in 1936 and 1937.

Michael Hunt

Michael Anthony "Mike" Hunt (born October 6, 1956) is a former professional American football player who played linebacker for three seasons for the Green Bay Packers, appearing in a total of 22 games.

The Packers selected Hunt from the University of Minnesota in the second round of the 1978 NFL Draft. Hunt played all 16 games in his rookie season, but began to suffer from the effects of head and neck injuries. He appeared in only three games in 1979, when he was forced to the injured reserve list because of knee surgery, and three more in 1980. On September 21, 1980, Hunt was kneed in the head during a game against the Los Angeles Rams and suffered a concussion; this proved to be his final NFL game. After spending 1981 on the reserve-retired list, Hunt attempted a comeback in the 1982 preseason, but was forced to retire on August 3, 1982 because of recurring concussions.

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Gag name

A gag name is a false name used to elicit humour through its simultaneous resemblance to a real name on the one hand, and to a term or phrase that is funny, strange, or vulgar on the other hand. The source of the humour is the pun and double entendre; frequently, the humour arises when an unknowing victim is induced to use the name without realising the joke. Urban legend holds that such a prank is often played on substitute teachers or others who must read a roll, for whom pranksters will switch the roll with one containing such names.

Some names that would be considered gag names have been adopted as stage names by performers, often in the adult entertainment industry.

Examples in reality

In the mid-1970s Jim Davidson and John Elmo frequently called the Tube Bar, a tavern owned by Louis "Red" Deutsch, asking for names such as "Ben Dover", "Mike Hunt", "Peter Phile", "Phil Lacio", "Moe Lester", "Stu Peid" and "Al Coholic", recording and sharing Deutsch's responses. These Tube Bar prank calls were the inspiration for Bart Simpson's prank calls to Moe's Tavern in The Simpsons.