Forrest Shook played through some of the game's major rule changes in the early 1930's including the introduction of the 10-second and 3-second rules but neither deterred the 1934 graduate from a stellar career in Batesville.  Shook played under both Richard Prentice and Jim Hickey during his high school days, and was a member of two sectional championship squads in 1933 and 1934 along with being a part of the program's first-ever Ripley County Tournament championship team in 1932.  The icing on the cake would be in the 1934 season when 'Shook Ran Wild,' scoring 25 total points in the regional championship.  The Bulldogs would lose by just five points to eventual state runner-up Indianapolis Tech the following weekend in the first round of the 16-team state championship tournament.  

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Shook scored nearly 500 career points between just his junior and senior seasons and he was named an honorable mention selection to the 1934 All-State team while also holding a Ripley County Tournament record for more that 20 years after his 23 points against Napoleon in 1933 set a mark for most single-game points in the county tourney.  In three varsity seasons, Shook's Batesville teams went a combined 59-14.  After a high school career that also included being Batesville's first top three finisher in the track and field state finals (placing third with a jump or 12 feet in the pole vault), Shook shot up to 6'6" and went on to a basketball and track & field career at Ball State where he was a three-year letter winner in both.  On the hardwood, he would play for future Indiana University coaching great Branch McCracken and eventually finish as the team's second leading scorer his junior season.

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Forrest Shook passed away on June 13, 1983 but not before making his mark as a family man in Logansport.  He and his wife Esther raised four children following his playing days, Tom, Dick, Linda and Susan.