Reggie Smith

Carl Reginald Smith, born April 2, 1945, is an American former professional baseball player who appeared in Major League Baseball as an outfielder and later served as a coach and front office executive. Raised in Los Angeles, he attended Centennial High School in Compton, California. A switch-hitter who threw right-handed, Smith won the International League batting title in 1966 with a .320 average for the Toronto Maple Leafs and was called up to the majors late that season.

Over a seventeen-year MLB career spanning 1966 to 1982, Smith played for the Boston Red Sox (1966–73), St. Louis Cardinals (1974–76), Los Angeles Dodgers (1976–81) and San Francisco Giants (1982). He appeared in 1,987 games, batting .287 with 314 home runs and 1,092 runs batted in. He played at least seventy games in thirteen different seasons, and in every one of those seasons his team finished with a winning record. He appeared in four World Series.

In his prime, Smith was regarded as having one of the strongest throwing arms of any outfielder in the majors. After his MLB career, he played two seasons in Nippon Professional Baseball before moving into coaching and front office roles.