Reggie Smith

Carl Reginald Smith is an American former professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as an outfielder and afterwards served as a coach and front office executive. He also played in the Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for two seasons at the end of his playing career. During a seventeen-year MLB career (1966–1982), Smith appeared in 1,987 games, hit 314 home runs with 1,092 RBI and batted .287. He was a switch-hitter who threw right-handed. In his prime, he had one of the strongest throwing arms of any outfielder in the MLB. Smith played at least seventy games in thirteen different seasons, and in every one of those thirteen seasons, his team had a winning record.

2 April 1945

Born on the same birth date (2 April 1945): Anne Waldman • Don Sutton • Guy Fréquelin • Jürgen Drews • Linda Hunt

Born on the same birth day (2 April): Avi Benedi • Bobby Ávila • Calvin Davis • David Heyes • Edmund Dwyer-Gray • Eyal Berkovic • Joan D. Vinge • Jürgen Drews • Leon Russell • Michael Stone (loyalist) • Nicholas Murray Butler • Pedro Pascal • Per Elofsson • Stefano Bettarello • Thom Evans • Will Hoy • Zach Bryan • Émile Zola

Born in the same month (April 1945): Annie Dillard • August Wilson • Bernard Arcand • Catherine Lara • Catherine Spaak • Demetrio Stratos • Dick Johnson (racing driver) • Don Sutton • Doon Arbus • Guy Fréquelin • Howard Davies (director) • Hugh Hopper • John Krebs, Baron Krebs • Jürgen Drews • Kevin Berry • Linda Hunt • Martin Chivers • Naftali Temu • Richard C. Hoagland • Rodney Bickerstaffe • Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan • Steve Carver • Steve Spurrier • Tammi Terrell • Tommy Smith (footballer, born 1945)