Ozzie Smith

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Ozzie Smith
Ozzie Smith 1983.jpg
Shortstop
Born: December 26th, 1954
Mobile , United StatesUnited StatesUnited States 
Beats: Switch Throws: Right
Debut in Major League Baseball
April 7,  1978  with the  San Diego Padres
Last MLB assignment
October 17,  1996  with the  St. Louis Cardinals
MLB statistics
(until end of career)
Batting average    , 262
Home runs    28
Hits    2,460
RBI    793
Stolen Bases    580
Teams

Awards

member of
☆☆☆Baseball Hall of Fame☆☆☆
Recorded     2002
Quota    91.7%
Last update: February 1st, 2019

Osborne Earl "Ozzie" Smith (born December 26, 1954 in Mobile , Alabama ) is a former American baseball player who was active from 1978 to 1996 in Major League Baseball for the San Diego Padres and the St. Louis Cardinals .

Life

Smith was born in Mobile , Alabama , the second of six children to Clovis and Marvella Smith . He had four other brothers and a sister with whom he grew up in Watts , a borough of Los Angeles , after moving his family there when he was six. His mother worked in a nursing home while his father worked as a driver for Safeway . Smith played a variety of sports in his childhood, later focusing on baseball. He became a fan of the Los Angeles Dodgers . During his school years at Locke High School , he only played basketball and baseball. With the later NBA player Marques Johnson he played in the basketball team and with the later MLB player Eddie Murray in the baseball team. From 1974 he studied on a partial scholarship at California Polytechnic State University and had the status of a walk-on , i.e. a student applying for admission to university sports. When the shortstop broke his leg in the middle of season '74, Smith stepped in for him. By the time he graduated in 1977, he had set the records with the most at bats (754) and stolen bases (110).

Career

In 1976, the year before last, Smith was drafted in the seventh round of the 1976 MLB Draft by the Detroit Tigers . However, they could not agree on a signature bonus , while the Tigers only offered $ 8,500 , Smith wanted $ 10,000. So Smith went back to university and was signed by the San Diego Padres in the fourth round of the 1977 MLB Draft as the 86th player . This time with a signature bonus of $ 5,000.

Hitting

category G FROM R. H 2 B 3B MR RBI BB SB SO AVG OBP SLG
statistics 2.573 9,396 1.257 2,460 402 69 28 793 1.072 580 589 .262 .337 .328

Fielding

category G PO A. E. CH DP FP RF / 9 Innings
statistics 2.511 4,249 8.375 281 12.624 1,590 .978 5.22 21,785.67

Works

  • Ozzie Smith, Rob Rains: Wizard . Contemporary Books, Chicago 1988, ISBN 0-8092-4594-9 .
  • Ozzie Smith, Rob Rains: Ozzie Smith - The Road to Cooperstown . Sports Publishing LLC, 2002, ISBN 1-58261-576-4 .
  • Ozzie Smith: Hello, Fredbird! Mascot Books, 2006, ISBN 1-932888-83-7 .

literature

  • Mike Eisenbath: The Cardinals Encyclopedia . Temple University Press, 1999, ISBN 1-56639-703-0 .
  • Joe Garner: And The Fans Roared . Sourcebooks, Naperville 2000, ISBN 1-57071-582-3 .
  • Whitey Herzog, Kevin Horrigan: White Rat - A Life in Baseball . Harper & Row, New York 1987, ISBN 0-06-080910-8 .
  • Whitey Herzog, Jonathan Pitts: You're Missin 'a Great Game . Simon & Schuster, New York 1999, ISBN 0-684-85314-0 .
  • Rick Hummel: Commish & the Cardinals . St. Louis Post-Dispatch Books, 2007, ISBN 978-0-9661397-9-2 .
  • Matthew Leach: Game of my Life - St. Louis Cardinals . Sports Publishing LLC, Champaign 2008, ISBN 978-1-59670-273-8 .
  • David Nemec, Saul Wisnia: 100 Years of Baseball . Publications International, Ltd., 2002, ISBN 0-7853-7567-8 .
  • Dan O'Neill, Joe Buck, Robert W. Duffy, Bernie Miklasz: Busch Stadium Moments . Ed .: Mike Smith. St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 2005, ISBN 978-0-9661397-3-0 .
  • Rob Rains, Alvin Reid: Whitey's Boys: A Celebration of the '82 Cards World Championship . Triumph, Chicago 2002, ISBN 1-57243-485-6 .
  • Rob Rains: Cardinal Nation . 2nd Edition. The Sporting News, St. Louis 2003, ISBN 0-89204-727-5 .
  • Rob Rains: Tony La Russa - Man on a Mission . Triumph, Chicago 2009, ISBN 978-1-60078-169-8 .
  • Gene Schoor: The History of the World Series . William Morrow and Company, New York 1990, ISBN 0-688-07995-4 .
  • Ron Smith: The Sporting News Selects Baseball's 100 Greatest Players . The Sporting News, St. Louis 1998, ISBN 978-0-89204-608-9 .
  • Lyle Spatz: The SABR Baseball List and Record Book: Baseball's Most Fascinating Records and Unusual Statistics . Society for American Baseball Research, 2007, ISBN 978-1-4165-3245-3 .

Web links

Commons : Ozzie Smith  - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Associated Press: 'Wizard of Oz' on deck for enshrinement. Sports Illustrated.com, July 28, 2002, archived from the original on July 30, 2010 ; Retrieved March 19, 2008 .
  2. ^ Smith and Rains 1988, p. 9
  3. ↑ Smith and Rains 1988, pp. 9-10
  4. ↑ a b Ozzie Smith. Cal Poly Land, accessed April 26, 2008 .
  5. ↑ Ron Fimrite: No. 1 In His Field. Sports Illustrated.com, September 28, 1987, accessed January 3, 2009 .
  6. ↑ Ozzie Smith. (No longer available online.) California Polytechnic State University, archived from the original on September 29, 2010 ; Retrieved January 4, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gopoly.com
  7. ↑ Dave Hollander: Still, Nothing in Baseball Gets Past Ozzie. (No longer available online.) AOL, August 8, 2007, formerly the original ; Retrieved October 31, 2007 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / sports.aol.com  
  8. ^ San Diego Padres 3, San Francisco Giants 2. Retrosheet.org, accessed September 27, 2007 .
  9. ↑ a b Ozzie Smith Statistics. In: Baseball Reference . Sports Reference, LLC, accessed December 17, 2007 .
personal data
SURNAME Smith, Ozzie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Smith, Osborne Earl (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American baseball player
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Mobile , Alabama