Torii Kedar Hunter (born July 18, 1975 in Pine
Bluff, Arkansas) is a Major League Baseball
outfielder for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.
Torii Hunter has shown his athletic ability, having
taken away many home runs throughout his 11 year
baseball career for the Minnesota Twins. ESPN
commentators have called Hunter a "daily web gem,"
referring to ESPN's nightly highlight reel. He has
won seven consecutive Gold Glove Awards for his
defensive prowess.
He currently resides during the off-season in the
Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex suburb of Prosper,
Texas. He is a cousin of Las Vegas 51s outfielder
Choo Freeman. Despite the same spelling, Hunter was
not named after torii, the gates to a Japanese
Shinto shrine. Hunter himself says jokingly, "I
think, when my mom filled out the paperwork after I
was born, she accidentally put two 'I's."
