- Signed by the New York Yankees as an amateur free agent in 1949. Major League Baseball debut in 1955 with the Baltimore Orioles. Later played for the Kansas City Athletics, the Pittsburgh Pirates, the Houston Colt 45's, finishing with the Cincinnati Reds in 1964.
- Uncle of Tim Flannery.
- In 2012 Smith lived with his second wife in Columbus, Texas, and enjoyed golfing and fishing. In 2010 he had heart bypass surgery, which forced him to miss the 50th-anniversary reunion of the 1960 Pittsburgh Pirates.
- Not to be confused with Hal R. Smith (born 1931). Major League Baseball's two Hal Smths were always being confused for one another. It didn't help clarity much that they played ball in the same era and, worse, that they played the same position and both batted right-handed.
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