Claire Smith (born July 1, 1954) is an American sportswriter, who covered Major League Baseball for the Hartford Courant, The New York Times, and The Philadelphia Inquirer.

She has an older brother, William Jr., born on the day Bobby Thomson hit the famous walk-off home run to win the pennant against the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Peter Ueberroth, the newly appointed Baseball Commissioner, declared a new rule the next day requiring equal access for all major league locker rooms.

[6] Smith was the subject of A League of Her Own, a short biographical documentary that was screened in 2018 at the Hall of Fame's annual Baseball Film Festival.

[7] Claire Smith was elected the 2017 recipient of the J. G. Taylor Spink Award in balloting by the Baseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA) on December 6, 2016.