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Pierre-Luc "Pete" Laforest (born January 27, 1978 in Hull, Quebec) is a Canadian baseball catcher for the Major League Baseball Tampa Bay Devil Rays. He is a graduate of Fort Scott Community College. He plays for the Durham Bulls, the Triple-A affiliate of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, and was a draft pick of the Montreal Expos. He was part of Team Canada at the 2004 Summer Olympics and 2006 World Baseball Classic.

In 2003, LaForest missed spring training and the first month of the season due to visa problems. Since 1997, he had improperly used a student visa to enter the United States, and in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks he was denied entry to the country until a FBI background check had been completed.

LaForest did not speak the English language until coming to America to attend community college, as he was raised in a French-speaking region of Canada.

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