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{{short description|American baseball player}}
{{Infobox baseball biography
| name          = Hilton Smith
| image         = Hilton Smith.png
| image_size    = 
| position      = [[Pitcher]]
| birth_date    = {{birth date|1907|2|27|mf=y}}
| birth_place   = [[Giddings, Texas]], U.S.
| death_date    = {{death date and age|1983|11|18|1907|2|27|mf=y}}
| death_place   = [[Kansas City, Missouri]], U.S.
| bats          = Right
| throws        = Right
| debutleague   = Negro leagues
| debutdate     = 1932
| debutyear     = 
| debutteam     = Monroe Monarchs
| finalleague   = Negro leagues
| finaldate     = 1948
| finalyear     = 
| finalteam     = Kansas City Monarchs
| statleague    = Negro leagues{{efn|On December 16, 2020, Major League Baseball declared the Negro leagues, from the span of 1920–1948, to be a "Major League".<ref>{{cite web|title=MLB officially designates the Negro Leagues as 'Major League'|url=https://www.mlb.com/press-release/press-release-mlb-officially-designates-the-negro-leagues-as-major-league|website=MLB.com|date=December 16, 2020|accessdate=February 1, 2024}}</ref> Smith's statistics reflect his time in the Negro leagues from 1932 and from 1937 until the end of his career.}}
| stat1label    = [[Win–loss record (pitching)|Win–loss record]]
| stat1value    = 70–38
| stat2label    = [[Earned run average]]
| stat2value    = 2.92
| stat3label    = [[Strikeouts]]
| stat3value    = 594
| teams         = 
;Negro leagues:
*[[Monroe Monarchs]] (1932–1935)
*[[Kansas City Monarchs]] (1936–1948)
;Other:
*[[Bismarck Churchills]] (1935)
| highlights    = 
* 6× [[East-West All-Star Game|All-Star]] (1937–1942)
* [[Negro World Series]] champion ([[1942 Colored World Series|1942]])
| hoflink = National Baseball Hall of Fame
| hoftype = National
| hofdate = [[2001 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting|2001]]
| hofmethod = Veterans Committee
}}

'''Hilton Lee Smith''' (February 27, 1907{{efn|During his lifetime, Smith claimed that his birth-date was 1912, which is the date shown in several references such as Riley, p. 723.  Nearly 20 years after his death, however, historian Larry Lester discovered information and confirmed that his actual birth-date was February 27, 1907; see Thornley, p. 136.}} – November 18, 1983) was an American right-handed [[pitcher]] in [[Negro league baseball]]. He pitched alongside [[Satchel Paige]] for the [[Kansas City Monarchs]] and [[Bismarck Churchills]] between 1932 and 1948. He was inducted into the [[National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum|National Baseball Hall of Fame]] in [[2001 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting|2001]].

== Early life ==
Born in [[Giddings, Texas]], Smith began his career in black baseball's equivalent of the minor leagues with the [[Austin Black Senators]] in [[Austin, Texas]]. Smith made the dean's list as a student at [[Prairie View A&M University|Prairie View A&M College]] in 1928 and 1929. He was an outfielder in his first college season and a pitcher in his second year.<ref name=PVAMU>{{cite web|title=Hilton Lee Smith inducted into the Prairie View A&M Sports Hall of Fame|url=http://www.pvualumni.org/2011/01/07/hilton-lee-smith-inducted-into-the-prairie-view-am-sports-hall-of-fame/|publisher=[[Prairie View A&M University]]|access-date=January 3, 2015}}</ref>

His big league debut was with the [[Monroe Monarchs]] of [[Monroe, Louisiana]] in 1932. In 1934, Smith wed Louise Humphrey. They had two children.<ref name=Porter>{{cite book|editor1-last=Porter|editor1-first=David|title=Biographical Dictionary of American Sports: Q-Z|date=2000|publisher=[[Greenwood Publishing Group]]|isbn=0313311765|pages=1434–1435|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HXAxPvFtwqIC&pg=PA1434|access-date=January 3, 2015}}</ref>

== Semi-pro career ==
From 1935 to 1936, Smith pitched for the [[Bismarck Churchills|Bismarck]] semi-professional team organized by [[Neil Churchill]]. In 1935, his teammates included [[Satchel Paige]], [[Ted Radcliffe|Ted "Double Duty" Radcliffe]], [[Quincy Trouppe]], [[Barney Morris]], and [[Chet Brewer]]. In August, the team won the national semipro championship in Wichita, Kansas.  In 1936, Paige, Radcliffe, and Brewer departed and Smith became the ace of the Bismarck team.  They returned to the national championship, where Smith won four games, but Bismarck failed to repeat as champions.<ref>{{cite web | last=McNary | first=Kyle P. | title=North Dakota Integrated Baseball History | url=http://www.pitchblackbaseball.com/northdakotabaseball.html | publisher=Pitch Black Baseball | year=2001 | access-date=November 22, 2009 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080725100704/http://www.pitchblackbaseball.com/northdakotabaseball.html | archive-date=July 25, 2008 | url-status=dead }}</ref>

== Negro league career ==
In late 1936, Smith signed with the [[Kansas City Monarchs]]. From 1937 until his retirement in 1948, Smith was a star pitcher on the Monarchs. He possessed an outstanding [[curveball]], but was overshadowed by his more flamboyant teammate [[Satchel Paige]]. Often Paige would pitch the first three innings of a game, leaving Smith to pitch the remaining six. Also, unlike Paige, Smith was a very good hitter.

== Post-playing career and death ==
After retiring from baseball, Smith worked as a schoolteacher and later as a steel plant foreman. He also scouted for the [[Chicago Cubs]]. Smith had a quiet, reserved temperament, but in his later years he stood up for Negro leaguers in their struggle to be inducted into the [[Baseball Hall of Fame]]. He died in 1983 in [[Kansas City, Missouri]]. It was not until 2001 that he was posthumously inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

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==References==
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;Citations
*{{citation |
last1=Clark |
first1=Dick |
last2=Lester |
first2=Larry |
title=The Negro Leagues Book |
place=Cleveland, Ohio |
publisher=Society for American Baseball Research |
year=1994 }}
*{{citation |
last=Hogan |
first=Lawrence D. |
year=2006 |
title=Shades of Glory: The Negro Leagues and the Story of African-American Baseball |
place=Washington, DC |
publisher=National Geographic |
isbn=0-7922-5306-X |
url-access=registration |
url=https://archive.org/details/shadesofgloryneg00hoga }}
*{{citation |
last=Riley |
first=James A. |
title=The Biographical Encyclopedia of the Negro Baseball Leagues |
place=New York |
publisher=Carroll & Graf |
year=1994 |
isbn=0-7867-0959-6 }}
*{{citation |
last=Thornley |
first=Stew |
title=Baseball in Minnesota: The Definitive History |
place=St. Paul, MN |
publisher=Minnesota Historical Society Press |
year=2006 |
isbn=0-87351-551-X }}

==External links==
*{{Baseball Hall of Fame profile|smith-hilton}}
*{{Baseballstats|br=s/smithhi99}} and [https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=smith-001hil Baseball-Reference Black Baseball and Mexican League stats] and [https://www.seamheads.com/NegroLgs/player.php?playerID=smith01hil Seamheads]
*{{SABR Baseball Biography Project|a4c98932}}
*{{Find a Grave}}

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{{1942 Kansas City Monarchs}}

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