finalyear bats birth_place debutyear finaldate statvalue position finalteam statlabel debutdate birth_date article_title debutteam name throws
1977 left albemarle , north carolina 1973 september 10 .232 4 21 outfielder seattle mariners batting average home runs runs batted in september 6 1 august 1948 tommy smith -lrb- baseball -rrb-
 cleveland indians tommy smith right
tommy smith -lrb- baseball -rrb-

tommy alexander smith -lrb- born august 1 , 1948 in albemarle , north carolina -rrb- is a former major league baseball outfielder .
he played five seasons in the majors , four for the cleveland indians and one for the seattle mariners , mostly in the outfield .
smith was selected by the indians in the 3rd round of the 1970 major league baseball draft out of north carolina state university , where he played college baseball for the wolfpack .
he spent the next several seasons in their farm system , seeing only brief stints with the major league club in each season from until .
in , he got his first real shot at big league playing time , playing 55 games and batting .256 .
prior to the season , smith was selected with the 58th pick -lrb- third round -rrb- of the 1976 mlb expansion draft by the mariners .
however , even with an expansion team smith saw very little time in the majors , playing in just 21 games , going 7-for-27 in his final major league season .
