Hey, thanks for making this. Terry is my grandpa and it’s cool to see a video about his career. I never got to see him pitch. We still make the same tacos from the Letterman show every Christmas. :)
Another great video!! I got lucky as a young person and was able to batboy in the mid to late 80s for the Portland Beavers (AAA for Phillies/Twins). As you mentioned... Terry finished his career with Portland in 1987. Your video portrayed him perfectly... He was pretty awesome to be around, a great/fun teammate in the clubhouse., and competed in his dozen or so games he pitched that year.
I grew up in the 1970s......though I was not a Doger fan and really didnt like the Dodgers I can remember very well the peak years of Terry Forsters career when he was probably the most difficult left handed reliever to hit in all of baseball. I can remember in the playoffs one year and I am not sure it was 1978 or 1981 but the Dodgers were playing the Yankees in the world series.....I remember Tommy Lasorda going to the mound to bring in Terry Forster to try and close out the game and at the time Lasorda had so much confidence in Forster that after he gave the ball to Forster and began to walk off the mound he made a gesture towards the Yankees dugout where he clinched his fist and raised his arm up in the air and then jerked it down in a motion that looked as if he was already celebrating as if it was a sure thing his Dodgers were about to win that game. Lasorda also added what appeared on replay to be a hell yeah as he did that towards the Yankees dugout. Sadly for Terry Forster, despite having probably the most incredible year of his career that year as the most dominate left handed reliever in baseball....Forster didnt have his best stuff that day and it was probably because he had been really over used down the stretch that year by Lasorda...but Forster went on in that game to give up the final runs that led to a Yankees victory. But despite that I remember how truly great Forster was in his prime and even in Atlanta years later when he got a little over weight....Forster was still very effective a few years in Atlanta. He had some good seasons and I used to talk to my dad about how the White Sox fans had to have spent the 1970s and early 80s wondering what in hell their management was thinking in the early 70s when they developed and then traded away both Forster and Rich Gossage and then both those guys who honestly had great stuff when they came up with the White Sox....both went on to be star relievers for other teams and win world series rings with other teams while the White Sox were for most of both their careers except for 1983 a team that was always in mediocrity. Forster did not enjoy the prolonged success or dominance that Goose Gossage did....and that was probably because he didnt take care of himself and missed a lot of time with injuries during his peak prime years....but Forster had some very nasty stuff and if the White Sox had kept both young guns in the early 1970s I can only Imagine how scary a bullpen would have been when a manager could have brought in a dominate lefty like Forster and a dominate righty like Goose was. You can actually ask the same thing about what was the Pirates thinking who acquired both pitchers from the White Sox and had to have seen their potential and ended up trading both away. Those two relievers would have made the very good Pirate teams of the late 1970s that won it all in 1979, even better.
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Man, that's something. A interesting story. I've seen players who are heavy build do well in baseball. Dioner Navorro, Vogelbach, Fielder, Colon, Broxton, Bengie and Jose Molina, Pablo Sandoval, Beck, The Babe, David Ortiz, etc. Forster seems to have started a movement in body positivity before anyone else did.
I ain't an athlete, lady. I'm a baseball player. - John Kruk. Truer words have never been spoken. Look at Vogey on the Mets. He was loved by us Brewers fans too. If you produce, who gives a crap what you look like. So long as they don't become so heavy they can't move, let the biggins be.
In Wisconsin, being a biggin is a source of pride. Lol. Prince Fielder was a big sexy beast and beloved to this day! Watching him play ball was always a trip. He also had two inside the park Homer's if my memory isnt.betraying me. Lol
@@Hatbilly that's awesome, man. The only cool thing that ever happened to me was I randomly met a guy at McDonald's that was roommates with Paul Molitor in the minors. He saw my brewers cap and struck up a convo with me knowing too much detail and about the teams in the 1970s/80s to be bullshitting.
From time to time you run into sports broadcasters who in an attempt to make themselves “current” will go out of their way to poke fun at “heavier” pro athletes. At the end of the day it just doesn’t make sense. Most sports fans tend to accept the “non-svelte” type of athletes. Terry Forster was able to have a nice career with a few laughs along the way. And he was not a bad pitcher either. Thanks for another great video.
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This “body positivity” movement is dangerous. Yes, Letterman is a fool, his comment was insensitive and ridiculous. However, having high body fat, particularly around your core, is unhealthy. That is just a fact. We should not be encouraging people to be obese the same as we should not be encouraging people to take drugs. The video on Eric Show makes that obvious.
David Letterman's other favorite player of that era was Buddy Biancalana, a good-field no-hit shortstop with the Kansas City Royals. Letterman had a countdown to the hit record for him (he ended up with 113 hits and a .205 average) and when played surprisingly well in the World Series, he earned a guest spot on the show.
A few names to add to my Jenny Craig candidates of former MLB players.Bob Horner,Sid Fernandez, David "Boomer Wells, CC Sabathia,Steve Balboni,and Willie Mays Aiken's.Balboni and Aiken's were naturally big guys but fall into this category.I could probably come up with more candidates for this list,but these are the few that came to me without much thinking.
I coached a semi-pro team and my third baseman for out championship year was over 300 pounds and was third in the league in stolen bases. 2nd in batting average too. The greatest player of all time is remembered mostly as a fat guy because they didn't film many games until his 30s. Babe Ruth. Before the 90s and steroids, fat guys were not super rare in baseball. Sid Fernandez, Bob Hamlin, and Steve Balboni all played in the same decade. Gaylord Perry was never a bean pole. Willie Stargell's belly could barely be contained during the 79 Series. Different sport but never forget the greatest arena quarterback of all time, Jared Lorenzen. I've even seen some big guys on hockey ice.
Started looking this guy up after watching this & Wikipedia says "Forster was also an excellent hitter, something usually not associated with relief pitchers. His .397 lifetime batting average (31 hits in 78 at bats) is the highest for any major leaguer in history with either 50 at bats or with at least 15 years of major league experience." holy shit
Regarding the guys comment about kirk. The guy said nothing about little kids who are overweight. Hes talking about a grown man who is playing a professional sport and making good money doing it. He looks like he doesn't take being a MLB player seriously and if I was a GM I wouldn't sign him to a long term deal cause you have to worry about injuries and if he is gonna eat himself out of the league. Bartolo Colon wasn't a fat guy when he was as young as Kirk.
Manoah's defense of Kirk was that he was an "inspiration to kids who are little overweight to stick with baseball". That's where that came from. Kirk is 5'8". The "ideal" weight for that height probably sits under 150 pounds. He'd be more of an injury liability as a 150 pound big league catcher, in my opinion.
Ah....back when you could still make jokes and no one threw a temper tantrum and no one lost their job. Funny how Letterman actually made the guy much more famous, liked and rich....BECUASE he was able to take a joke.
I must have missed the era when black/female/gay/Jewish workers got to publicly ridicule their rich white employers and nobody got fired or threw a temper tantrum.
I love that Baseball players come from across the globe and some have the body of a Greek god and others are built more like the globe that we live on. At the end of the day baseball is not a fashion show. It's a game where only the best of the best make it to the show.
