[2][5] Baseball was allowed as a demonstration sport at the 1984 Los Angeles Games and Smith hoped that it would be played for medals in 1988 in Seoul.
He oversaw the winning of the first-ever gold medal for baseball, won by Cuba in Barcelona in 1992.
Smith served as a key development officer for Greenville College before being hired as vice president for Institutional Advancement.
While serving in that capacity, Smith was chosen by the GC Board of Trustees as the ninth President of Greenville College.
It is awarded to "any person who has illustrated the Olympic ideal through his action, has achieved remarkable merit in the sporting world or has rendered outstanding services to the Olympic Movement, either through his own personal achievement or his own contribution to the development of sport.”[8] Smith was elected to the NAIA Hall of Fame as a baseball coach.