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...Walsh did get to know Dave Forst quite well during his playing days at Harvard, and fondly remembers the time the two shared at the beginning of the program's recent resurgence...
...good a player as we've ever had here," Walsh recalls. "As shortstop and captain, he had a way of actually making his teammates better. That's a very hard thing to do in our sport; it's easier to think about something like that happening in basketball or hockey. But if you were on Dave's side, you knew that he expected a certain amount of you, that he wouldn't accept anything less...
However, the accolades and big numbers that accompanied Forst's success are secondary in Walsh's mind. "The special thing about Dave is that he had passion that you can only find in so many players," Walsh said. "Watching him out there, you could see that he didn't want to leave. He played every game like it was his last...
Forst credits his great career to Walsh. "We were 10-25 my freshman year," he remembers. "And a lot of the thought surrounding the team seemed to be that baseball was just something we did on the side. Coach Walsh came in and turned the program around. He immediately brought back a winning attitude and a love of the game...
...knew he wasn't done then," Walsh says of the letdown. "Dave's a self-starter, a leader, a savvy guy who just doesn't want to give up his passion for the game...