Billy Smith (baseball coach)

Billy Franklin Smith (born January 14, 1930, at High Point, North Carolina) is a retired American professional baseball first baseman, outfielder, manager and coach.

He threw and batted left-handed, stood 5 feet 9 inches (1.75 m) tall and weighed 160 pounds (73 kg) during his active career.

Smith compiled a lifetime batting average of .312 in minor league baseball but he never climbed higher than the Double-A level.

But his club fell in the first round of the playoffs to the Idaho Falls Russets.

In 1980, he became director of player development of the Toronto Blue Jays of the American League, serving in that post for four seasons before returning to uniform as a Blue Jay coach under Bobby Cox and Jimy Williams from 1984 to 1988.