Terrance Michael McDermott (born March 20, 1951) is a former
first baseman
A first baseman, abbreviated 1B, is the player on a baseball or softball team who fields the area nearest first base, the first of four bases a baserunner must touch in succession to score a run. The first baseman is responsible for the majori ...
in
Major League Baseball
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. He was drafted by the
Los Angeles Dodgers
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in the 1st round of the
1969 MLB Draft and played in nine games for them during the 1972 baseball season.
Following his playing days, McDermott was a popular sports broadcaster in Albuquerque at
KGGM-TV from 1980 to 1985
and then
KOAT-TV
KOAT-TV (channel 7) is a television station in Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States, affiliated with ABC. Owned by Hearst Television, the station maintains studios on Carlisle Boulevard in Northeast Albuquerque, and its transmitter is located ...
from 1985 to 1997.
He now works as a spokesman for Intel in Albuquerque.
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Major League Baseball first basemen
Los Angeles Dodgers players
Ogden Dodgers players
Daytona Beach Dodgers players
Albuquerque Dodgers players
El Paso Dodgers players
Albuquerque Dukes players
Waterbury Dodgers players
People from Rockville Centre, New York
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