Chino Smith

Satchel Paige called him one of the two most dangerous hitters in Negro league history, the other being Jud Wilson.

In 1930, Smith played in the first game involving a black team at Yankee Stadium; he hit a triple and two home runs.

[2] The incomplete records of the time show that Smith had a .423 career batting average in Negro league competition.

Sometimes he would spit at a pitcher's best offerings as it came across the plate, taking two strikes before lining a base hit through the middle.

On what would have been his 51st birthday, Smith got the second most votes as best right fielder in the 1952 Pittsburgh Courier player-voted poll of the Negro leagues' best players ever.