finalyear bats death_date death_place birth_place debutyear position finalteam birth_date article_title debutteam name throws
1909 unknown december 24 , 1960 -lrb- aged 86 -rrb- saginaw , michigan illinois 1902 infielder st. paul colored gophers february 1874 jimmy smith -lrb- negro leagues -rrb-
 chicago columbia giants james h. `` jimmy '' smith right
jimmy smith -lrb- negro leagues -rrb-

james h. `` jimmy '' smith -lrb- february 1874 -- december 24 , 1960 -rrb- was an infielder in the negro leagues .
smith played for the chicago columbia giants at the age of 28 , eventually moving on to the cuban x-giants in 1904 .
he played there for two seasons , then moved on to the leland giants for a few seasons .
he then appears to have wrapped up his professional baseball career with the st. paul colored gophers in 1909 .
smith also wrote for the newspapers about many fellow players in 1910 , not only giving opinions about their playing , and giving first and last names , but also helping to piece together where many of the players were coming and going during the season of 1910 .
by 1910 , smith had joined the 8th regiment of the illinois national guard and was stationed at peoria , illinois .
during his military career , smith organized and captained a team in the ninth united states cavalry and the forty-eighth united states volunteers .
he played in the philippines , cuba , japan , the united states and canada .
smith died in 1960 at the age of 86 in saginaw , michigan .
