Personal Life
Foster spends time instructing youth in baseball techniques, and also works as a motivational speaker. He operates a non-profit organization that supports children of military families and who live in inner city neighborhoods. He also sponsors baseball boot camps for children.
Foster was inducted into the Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame in 2003, and was a celebrity participant in the 2010 Cincinnati Reds/Findlay Market Opening Day Parade. Despite his well-publicized issues with New York Mets' ownership, he was offered, and accepted, an invitation to be present at the final game and closing of Shea Stadium in 2008.
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