Todd Hundley

Todd Hundley had a 14-season career (1990-2003) as a catcher for the New York Mets, Los Angeles Dodgers and Chicago Cubs. He was known for his defense early in his career but the switch-hitter became one of the best offensive catchers of the mid-1990s, setting the (then) single season home run record for that position (41) in 1996. Todd and his father Randy Hundley caught more games than any other father/son combination in baseball history.1 

Todd Randolph Hundley was born on May 27, 1969 in Martinsville, Virginia to Randy and Betty (Foster) Hundley.2 Both of his parents had grown up in nearby Bassett. Randy became the Cubs’ everyday catcher in 1966 and played most of his career with them until his 1977 retirement.

Todd grew up in Chicago. When he was two, his father suspected that he would be a ballplayer. “He always had a ball in his hands, swinging a bat, playing Wiffle ball,” Randy said. “I knew.” When his son told him he wanted to play, the elder Hundley encouraged him. “Sure, I pushed him, he said.”3

Randy was traveling with the Cubs and when he called home and learned from his wife that Todd had signed up for Little League. “What position did he sign up for?” he asked. “Catcher,” replied Betty. “I’m not sure he even knew I was a ballplayer,” Randy said many years later. “I never took him into the clubhouse with me when I was playing.”4

Todd confirmed, “I didn’t even know my dad played pro baseball. I knew he played, but it didn`t sink in. When you`re that age, you`re just outside playing all the time. I didn`t know he caught until a little later on.”5

When Todd told Randy about his interest in being a catcher, his father’s advice was “If you want to be a catcher, you have to learn to block the ball.”6 Todd’s Topps Opening Day Card from 1999 told of him catching future Hall-of-Famer Lee Smith when his father managed the Midland Cubs in the Texas League.

Hundley attended William Fremd High School in Palatine, Illinois where he played baseball and hockey. Already a switch-hitter, he led the Vikings with 27 RBIs and a .404 average as junior, then hit .367 during his senior year.

When he was asked during high school if he dreamed of playing for the Cubs and following in his father’s footsteps, Hundley said “No, I like the New York Mets.”7  He got his wish when the Mets selected him in the 2nd round of the 1987 MLB June Amateur Draft.

That summer, Hundley joined the Little Falls Mets in the Class A New York-Pennsylvania League and played in 34 games. He struggled to make the transition to professional ball, batting just .146. The Mets sent him back to Little Falls in 1988 but he didn’t fare much better, finishing with a .188 average.

Assigned to the Columbia (South Carolina) Mets in the high Class A South Atlantic League in 1989, Hundley improved enough (.269, 11 homers and 66 RBIs) to earn a September promotion to the majors. The club considered him the best defensive catcher in their organization. Despite the call-up, Hundley did not get into any games.

Before heading to spring training in 1990, Hundley married his high school sweetheart, Tiffany Saarinen before heading to spring training in 1990. They eventually had four children: Heather, Justin, Emma and Josh.

Hundley started the 1990 season with the Jackson (Mississippi) Mets (Class AA Texas League). He was hitting .269 on May 18 when big-league Mets starting catcher Barry Lyons went on the disabled list on May 18, prompting Hundley’s summons to the majors.

When Hundley met the team in San Diego, manager Davey Johnson told him he would debut that night. Hundley was also informed he would be their regular catcher until Lyons and backup catcher Mackey Sasser recovered from their injuries.

In his first game, Hundley, batting right-handed, had one hit, a double, against lefty Bruce Hurst in the Mets 6-3 loss to the Padres. But it was his work behind the plate that caught everyone’s attention. “I had to get out of the way of his throws (during warmups)”, said pitcher Frank Viola. “I’ll tell you something. The kid called a nice game. He gives you a good target, and he stays right there. I’m impressed.”8

Hundley played in nine games in May before the Mets sent him back down. His defensive skills continued to make the biggest impression on his coaches. Overall, he threw out 47% of base stealers in Jackson and was voted the best defensive catcher in the league that year. “His game calling is a pleasant surprise for a guy so young,” said his Jackson manager Clint Hurdle. “And he throws as well as anyone I’ve ever seen.”9 Since Lyons and Sasser continued to battle injuries, Hundley went back up to the majors in July.

New Mets manager Bud Harrelson10 said that Hundley received the call because “(h)e’s been playing every day. He gives us a left-handed bat in the lineup, he’s been here before and he’s the best defensive catcher we have in the organization.”11

Hundley didn’t hit much after his promotion, batting just .209 in 36 games. But his glove work kept him with the club for the rest of the season.

In 1991, the Mets assigned Hundley to the Norfolk (Virginia) Tides (Class AAA International League). There had been some concern that at 5-foot-11, 170 pounds, he might be too small to play in the majors. But he added 15 pounds over the winter, which seemed to improve both his hitting and durability. In 125 games for the Tides, Hundley batted .273 with team-best 14 home runs and 66 RBIs. He also played in the Triple A All-Star Game that season.

While it was clear that Hundley had the defensive skills to be the Mets everyday catcher, doubts continued about his hitting as he hit .133 after he was called up in September. “I started guessing. Then I started zoning,” he said. “I was trying to pick up the spin on the ball. Then I was just trying to pick up the ball.”12

In 1992, Hundley switched to uniform number 9, the same digit his father had worn when he played for the Cubs.13 But Hundley continued to struggle at bat over the next two seasons. He went 0-for-21 in spring training 1992, then endured several lengthy hitless streaks after the season started. He didn’t lift his average above .200 to stay until August 31. “I started pulling off the ball in spring training. I kept pulling off almost the whole season,” he said. “It’s not that I didn’t know better. And it’s not that I didn’t try to adjust.”14 Despite his struggles at the plate, Mets manager Jeff Torborg expressed confidence in Hundley saying “The significance of what he does behind the plater overrules what he does offensively.”15

Hundley said “It seemed like I was always making an adjustment in something. My swing, the way I was throwing. Finally, I said to heck with this. I quit worrying what people were saying or thinking.”16  His hitting improved slightly over the last two months of the 1992 season but his final batting average was .209 with a slugging percentage of .316.

Despite Hundley’s ongoing offensive struggles, Hundley remained the Mets primary catcher in 1993 due to his defense. On June 17, 1993, he played his 113th consecutive errorless game, setting a Mets record. In 130 games, he batted .228 with (then) career-high 11 home runs and 53 RBIs. On the final day of the season, Hundley broke scaphoid bone in his thumb, the first of a many injuries that would eventually hinder his career.

During spring training in 1994, he began working with Mets hitting coach Tom McCraw. His efforts soon began to paying off. During the first month of the season, Hundley batted .333 with six home runs and 13 RBIs. It looked like he might finally produce the offense that the Mets had been looking for since his arrival. On June 18, he went deep from each side of the plate in the same game for the first of five times in his career.

Although Hundley’s production tailed off, he finished the strike-shortened season with a .237 batting average along with 16 home runs and 42 RBIs.

Hundley continued to improve in 1995 after play resumed. He hit a grand slam on Opening Day17 and another one eight days later. He was batting .283 with 13 home runs and 43 RBIs when he injured his wrist in a collision at home plate on July 22. Hundley missed the month of August as he recuperated from the injury.

Hundley also said he felt better with his work behind the plate. “I think I’ve done a good job at it,” he said. “The catching part of it – working with the young pitchers – a lot of good things has come out of that. I felt comfortable throwing, as comfortable as I’ve felt my whole career.”18 

When Hundley returned for the final month of the 1995 season, Mets manager Dallas Green complimented him saying “He’s come by leaps and bounds.”19  Hundley finished with a .280 average, 15 homers and 53 RBIs, his best offensive showing yet.

His breakout season came in 1996. In April, he batted .305 with eight home runs and 21 RBIs. Hundley continued to hit well as the months progressed, avoiding injuries that had slowed his progress in previous years. He earned a spot on the NL’s All-Star Game roster. As the reserve catcher for starter Mike Piazza, he had one at-bat, a fly out to center field.

Hundley finished 1996 with 150 of his 153 appearances behind the plate to lead National League catchers. He batted .259 with a .906 OPS. But his three-run homer against the Atlanta Braves on September 14 gave him the mark that stood out the most. It was his 41st home run as a catcher, surpassing Roy Campanella’s single season record of 40 home runs by a catcher in 1953. Hundley’s home run mark has since been broken several times, most recently by Cal Raleigh, who hit 60 home runs in 2025.20  

“I don’t think I’m done,” Hundley said afterward. “I’m not going to go out and pop off and put more pressure on myself. But getting that one off me is like getting a house lifted off my shoulders.”21

Hundley joined Mickey Mantle as the only switch hitters in major-league history to reach the 40 home run mark through 1996.22 Mets general manager Joe McIlvaine said “Todd and Ron Karkovice are the best defensive catchers I’ve ever scouted. But if you had told me that someday Todd would hit 20 homers in the big leagues, I’d have said you were crazy.”23

In 1996, Hundley started a charitable program called “Hundley’s Heroes” to assist autistic children, support breast cancer research and aid the Make-A-Wish Foundation. He received the Good Guy Award that fall from the New York Press Photographers, New York Baseball Writers and New Jersey Sportswriters.

Hundley had another successful year in 1997, catching 122 games despite struggling with elbow pain. He finished seventh in the NL in slugging and eighth in OPS. Hundley also hit home runs from both sides of the plate two more times. Mets teammate Butch Huskey said “Todd’s our leader. We follow what he does.”24

He made his second All-Star team but missed the game due to the injury. “I don’t want to go and get caught up in the atmosphere and say ‘Yeah, I’m ready to go’ and do something stupid. It’s definitely going to work to my advantage to get those three days off,” he explained. 25

That August, Mets manager Bobby Valentine told reporters that Hundley’s personal habits needed to change. Valentine said Hundley “gets tired because he doesn’t get enough sleep. That will wear on you after a while.”26  Valentine also shared that he had spoken to Hundley before about his drinking and smoking but the catcher had not made any effort to change.

Hundley did not take kindly to the remarks. “You see how it feels after catching 130 games, after catching day games after night games,” he said. “Valentine can’t tell you. He hasn’t done it. He never will.”27

September was a difficult month for Hundley. His mother was battling cancer. His wife was also expecting their third child. When asked if his personal life was making it hard to play, Hundley said “It’s a baseball game. But when you go from (playing a game) to your mom, it takes the pressure off because you know it’s nothing compared to what she’s going through.”28

Despite elbow pain that bothered him throughout 1997, Hundley led the Mets with 30 home runs and .943 OPS. He decided to undergo reconstructive elbow surgery in late September, meaning he would miss part of the 1998 season. Mets general manager Steve Phillips told reporters that the club assumed “(Hundley) would not be available for at least part of the first half.”29 

As Hundley continued to give time to the New York community, he received the 1997 Thurman Munson30 Award at the annual dinner given in honor the Yankees catcher who died in a 1979 plane crash.31

Hundley was still rehabilitating his elbow when the 1998 season started. When the Mets announced they had traded for Piazza on May 22, 1998, it came as a surprise to fans, sportswriters and especially Hundley.

When Hundley returned to action on July 12, the Mets played him in left field in order to keep his bat in the lineup. Hundley expressed some frustration with playing a new position but he said he knew the Mets were primarily counting on his bat.

“I’m doing it so we can be in the same lineup,” said Hundley. “I’ve told [Piazza] that I want to win. I want to win here. I want to stay in New York.” Piazza acknowledged the trade’s impact on Hundley. “He seems content with the idea of playing left field. [Hundley] saying that makes me feel good.”32

Hundley struggled defensively in left field, making five errors in the 34 games to finish with a dismal .898 fielding percentage. When his offense decreased too, the Mets decided to use him solely as a pinch hitter. Hundley batted just .161 with three home runs and 12 RBIs in 1998.

With Piazza entrenched as their starting catcher, New York traded Hundley to the Dodgers on December 1, 1998.33  He had an MRI taken of his elbow to prove he was healthy. “I wanted to get that for the peace of mind just to let other teams know I’m healthy,” Hundley said. After spending his entire career with the Mets, he said “The toughest thing with this is the fans, saying goodbye to the fans.”34

The Dodgers hoped adding Hundley to their lineup would help improve their offense. They planned to make him their starting catcher again, where he had his biggest success. Dodger general manager Kevin Malone said “(Hundley’s) a major piece of the puzzle. He is going to give us better balance in the lineup hitting between Gary Sheffield and Raúl Mondesí.”35

Hundley played 114 games in 1999. Although he finished with a .207 average, he had 24 home runs and 55 RBIs. But Hundley’s defensive stats hit a career low point: he allowed 107 steals and led NL catchers in errors.

In 2000, another injury limited Hundley’s playing time. He strained his right oblique muscle against the Mets on May 31 and missed most of June. At the time, he was hitting .290 with 13 home runs and 33 RBIs.

Hundley continued to be productive offensively after he returned to the Dodgers starting lineup and finished the season with a batting .284 with 24 home runs and 70 RBIs.

He became a free agent after the season. Although Hundley was viewed with respect by his teammates for his toughness and dedication, the Dodgers were reluctant to sign him because of his declining defense and history of injuries.36

In December 2000, Hundley signed a four-year $23.5 million deal with the Cubs. “This is a dream come true,” he said about joining the team that his father played for. “Actually, it’s more like a fantasy come true.”37

The Cubs were counting on Hundley’s bat to overcome his lack of defense. They planned to make him their everyday catcher, and Hundley expressed optimism that his surgically-repaired elbow would not be a problem.

Hundley also said he wasn’t concerned about the pressure of playing where he grew up. “The pressure’s always there,” he said. “I was in New York for nine years, and that’s as pressure packed as it gets.”38

Despite expressing excitement about playing in his hometown, Hundley struggled in his first season with the Cubs. He was hitting just .179 with four home runs when he went on the disabled list due to back spasms and stiffness. He had already missed a number of games after injuring his back during spring training.

Cubs manager Don Baylor said at the time “He has been frustrated. I don’t know if it’s from his lack of hitting, the pressures of playing at home. I couldn’t point to what it is. I really can’t find anything that makes sense.”39

Hundley missed most of June and July as he recovered from the injury. When asked how he would use Hundley when he returned in late July, Baylor told the press “I have to find a chance to get him in there, let him relax and find some success. We need his bat and we need his presence as a veteran guy.”40

But Hundley continued to hit poorly after returning and Cubs fans began to boo him. Hundley shrugged it off saying “I came here to win. My numbers haven’t gone the way I wanted them to, but fans pay their good money and they have a right to do what they want.”41

As the season went on, Hundley, who was only batting .176 from the left side of the plate, gave up switch hitting and batted only right-handed. Hundley also said a prior wrist injury was contributing to his struggles as a left-handed batter. He said he hoped it would help him relax at the plate and he “was trying everything I possibly can” to improve.42  Baylor also began to work personally with Hundley in hopes of helping him. “I was trying to get him to put the (bad) months behind him and find a swing that he likes,” said Baylor.43

Despite his efforts to improve, Hundley started just 67 games at catcher in 2000 and finished with a .187 average, 12 home runs and 31 RBIs.

In spring training 2001, Baylor said Hundley would have to earn a slot in the starting lineup. Joe Girardi, who had been the Cubs’ Opening Day backstop the previous year, was Hundley’s competition. “I want to give him every opportunity,” said Baylor. “He’s the key to our lineup. But I’m not going to play an injured guy.”44

Hundley won the job initially, but his lack of hitting convinced Baylor to use both players throughout April. When Hundley dislocated his thumb in early May and went on the injured list, he was batting just .128.

Cubs fans booed Hundley on a regular basis in 2002. He acknowledged the jeers but said “I hear it, but it doesn’t bother me. They’re going to boo me no matter what I do.”45

After Hundley finished the season with a .211 average, 16 home runs and 35 RBIs, press reports said his future with team was in doubt. The Cubs management made it clear they wanted to trade him to reduce payroll, as Hundley still had two more years on his contract.

Chicago eventually dealt Hundley back to Los Angeles.46 The Cubs also agreed to pay Los Angeles $2 million of Hundley’s restructured contract.

Hundley was used in a backup role for the Dodgers, starting just six games through the first month of the 2003 season. On May 5, he was put on the disable list due to sciatica in his lower back.

Despite physical therapy and epidural injections, Hundley progressed very slowly. At the time of his injury, he was batting just .200 with one home run. When his recovery failed to progress, he had surgery to remove a floating disc fragment in his back. Hundley finally returned to the Dodgers roster in September where he was used sparingly, making eight plate appearances in nine games.

On May 11, 2004, Hundley underwent right hip surgery to repair torn cartilage. The injury came as he was rehabilitating from another back operation on November 25, 2003. Hundley missed the entire season and the Dodgers granted him free agency on October 29, 2004, ending his 14-year career.

Hundley divorced his wife in 2005. Later that year, he was stopped for a DUI. At the time his eight-year-old daughter was in the back seat. When he was stopped, he told police he had taken Vicodin for his back earlier in the evening and didn’t expect to go out. But then he got a phone call to pick up his older daughter at his ex-wife’s house. On the way home, Hundley said he felt “discombobulated” and began to drive erratically. He failed a sobriety test in his driveway and faced several charges.47

Hundley remarried in 2006. As of 2026, he and his second wife, Jodi Contreras, live in Auburn, California.

Hundley was one of the players named in the 2007 Mitchell Report on performance-enhancing drugs in Major League Baseball. He declined to speak with George Mitchell, the author. Kirk Radomski, a former Mets’ clubhouse attendant, testified in the report that he had supplied Hundley with Deca-Durabolin and testosterone.

Radomski said he told Hundley in 1996 that if he used those banned substances, he would hit 40 home runs. The clubhouse attendant said he continued to supply Hundley with PEDs after he was traded to the Dodgers.48

Hundley has largely avoided public appearances since his retirement. He visited Citi Field in 2020 to congratulate Pete Alonso when Alonso broke his Mets single-season home run record. Hundley also attended the New York Mets’ Old-Timers’ Day in 2022.

Hundley finished his 14-year career as .234 career hitter with 202 homers in 1,225 career games. Over the course of his career, he went from being a skilled defensive catcher to an offensive player who set a home run record for catchers at the time. This change took place as Hundley suffered a series of injuries that hindered his play behind the plate. Questions about the source of those injuries arose after his mention in the 2007 Mitchell report regarding steroid use in baseball.

Last revised: January 27, 2026

Acknowledgments

This biography was reviewed by Malcolm Allen and David Bilmes and checked for accuracy by SABR’s fact-checking team.

Photo credit: Todd Hundley, Trading Card Database.

Sources

In addition to the sources cited in the Notes, the author also used Baseball-Reference.com for player, team, and season pages, and other pertinent material.

Notes

1 Todd Hundley played 1,096 games as catcher and his father Randy played 1,026 games behind the plate. The other eight father/son catcher combinations are Earle Brucker Sr. (1937-1940, 1943) and Earle Brucker Jr. (1948), Sal Butera (1980-1988) and Drew Butera (2010-2021), Sam Hairston (1951) and John Hairston (1969), Fred Kendall (1969-1980) and Jason Kendall (1996-2010), Connie Mack (1886-1896) and Earle Mack (1910-1911, 1914), Billy Sullivan Sr. (1899-1912, 1914, 1916) and Billy Sullivan Jr. (1931-1942, 1947), Haywood Sullivan (1955, 1957, 1959-1963) and Marc Sullivan (1982, 1984-1987). Father Ozzie Virgil Sr. (1956-1958, 1960-1962, 1965-1966,1969) and Son Ozzie Virgil (1980-1990)

2 Hundley had three siblings: Chad, Julie and Renee.

3 “Hand-Me-Down Now a Prize Catch,” South Florida Sun Sentinel, March 8, 1992. https://www.sun-sentinel.com/1992/03/08/hand-me-down-now-a-prize-catch/ (Accessed  January 12, 2026)

4 “Hand-Me-Down Now a Prize Catch.”

5 Paul Sullivan, “They Should Catch Scouts’ Eyes, Chicago Tribune, April 26, 1987. https://www.chicagotribune.com/1987/04/26/they-should-catch-scouts-eyes/ (Accessed  January 12, 2026)

6 Jerome Holtzman, “Elder Hundley Puts Total Trust in Todd,” New York Daily News, April 5, 1990: 89.

7 Paul Sullivan, “They Should Catch Scouts’ Eyes.”

8 Bob Klapisch, “Mets Make Like Les Miserables,” New York Daily News, May 20, 1990: 51.

9 Marty Noble, “A Call to Arms for the Mets,” Newsday (Nassau Edition), May 19, 1990: 31.

10 Harrelson was named manager on May 29, 1990 after Davey Johnson was fired 42 games into the season. At the time, the Mets record was 20-22.

11 Ed Christine, “Hundley Comes up, Lyons Stays on the Farm,” Mt. Vernon (New York) Argus, July 13, 1990: D1.

12 Joe Christine, “Hundley’s Best Thought Was Not to Think,” New Rochelle (New York) Standard-Star, September 29, 1991: 42.

13 Hundley wore 9 or 99 for the rest of his career.

14 Ed Christine, “Hundley Finally Over the Hump,” Mt. Vernon (New York) Argus, September 11, 1992: 40.

15 Hundley, Todd, Score, 1993. Select, 293.

16 Ed Christine, “Hundley Starts to See Results at Bat,” The Reporter Dispatch (White Plains, NY), September 11, 1992: D5.

17 Hundley’s Opening-Day grand slam was the very first one at Coors Field and came in the Mets 9-11 loss to the Rockies.

18 Kit Stier, “Injury Tears Up Hundley,” The Daily Times (Mamaronneck, New York), August 29, 1995: 4D.

19 Stier, “Injury Tears Up Hundley.”

20 Campanella had 41 home runs in 1954 but only 40 came when he was the catcher. Johnny Bench hit 45 home runs in 1970 but only 38 of the home runs came when he was the catcher. Two other players broke Hundley’s record since: Javy Lopez (43 home runs, 42 as catcher) in 2003 and Raleigh (60 home runs, 49 as catcher and 11as designated hitter) in 2025. Salvador Perez  hit 48 home runs in 2021 but only 33 as catcher and the remaining 15 as designated hitter.

21 Thomas Hill, “Hundley’s Blast Passes Campy,” New York Daily News, September 15, 1996: 65.

22 Mantle hit more than 40 home runs twice, 52 in 1956 and 54 in 1961. Ken Caminiti also reached 40 home runs in 1996. Since 1996, six other switch hitters have hit more than 40 home runs in one season: Hall of Famer Chipper Jones (45 in 1999), Mark Teixeira (43 in 2005), Carlos Beltrán (41 in 2006), Lance Berkman (42 in 2002, 45 in 2006), and Anthony Santander (44 in 2024).

23 Hundley, Todd, Metal Universe, 1997. Blast Furnace, 7.

24 Hundley, Todd, Topps, 1998. 294.

25 Thomas Hill, “Not in the Stars,” New York Daily News, July 7, 1997: 46.

26 Jon Heyman, “Wakeup Call,” Newsday (Long Island), August 21, 1997: 98.

27 Heyman, “Wakeup Call.”

28 Kit Stier, “Mets Loss a Minor Blow for Hundley,” Mount Vernon (New York) Argus, September 6, 1997: 5D.

29 Thomas Hill, “At Last, Hundley to have Surgery”, New York Daily News, September 25, 1997: 80.

30 Hundley said Munson was his idol early in his career. Hundley, Todd. Rookie Idols, 1992. Pinnacle,10.

31 The award is presented annually to the baseball player who demonstrates success and inspiration on the fields of play and in the community spirit off the field.

32 Steve Jacobson, “They Both Can Get Along,” Newsday (Long Island), July 19, 1998: C4.

33 Hundley and minor league pitcher Arnold Gooch were traded to the Los Angeles Dodgers for Roger Cedeño and Charles Johnson. New York then sent Johnson to the Baltimore Orioles for Armando Benitez.

34 Thomas Hill, “Todd Goes Hollywood,” New York Daily News, December 2, 1998: 87.

35 Steve Springer, “L.A. Motto: Todd Help Us,” Los Angeles Times, December 2, 1998: D1.

36 Jason Reid, “Signs Clear Hundley, Valdes Won’t Be Back,” Los Angeles Times, December 8, 2000: 25.

37 Teddy Greenstein, “A Boy’s Fantasy Fulfilled,” Chicago Tribune, December 14, 2000: 307.

38 Greenstein, “A Boy’s Fantasy Fulfilled.”

39 Teddy Greenstein, “Hundley’s Nightmare Season Reaches New Low,” Chicago Tribune, June 20, 2001: 41.

40 Teddy Greenstein, “Hundley’s Role Uncertain,” Chicago Tribune, July 28, 2001: 53.

41 Teddy Greenstein, “Hundley Turns Right But it Doesn’t Help,” Chicago Tribune, August 24, 2001: 53.

42 Greenstein, “Hundley Turns Right But it Doesn’t Help.”

43 Teddy Greenstein, “Pepper Spices Attack,” Chicago Tribune, September 3, 2001: 27.

44 Teddy Greenstein, “Hundley Gets Another Shot,” Chicago Tribune, February 15, 2002: 59.

45 Rick Morrisey, “Cheer Hundley for Surviving All That Booing,” Chicago Tribune, September 26, 2002: 4-1.

46 The Chicago Cubs traded Hundley and Chad Hermansen to the Los Angeles Dodgers for Mark Grudzielanek and Eric Karros.

47 Hundley Accepts Blame for DUI, Chicago Tribune, August 16, 2005, 33:12.

48 Bill Pennington, “Steroid Report Depicts a 2-Player Domino Effect,” New York Times, December 16, 2007. https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/16/sports/baseball/16steroids.html (Accessed  January 12, 2026)