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ABOUT
15-time MLB All-Star shortstop known as "The Wizard" for his dazzling defensive plays. He won thirteen straight Gold Glove awards from 1980 to 1992 and helped lead the St. Louis Cardinals to a World Series Championship in 1982.He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2002 and the St. Louis Cardinals retired his #1 jersey.His record for double plays started by a shortstop (1,590) was broken by another outstanding fielder, Omar Vizquel.
BEFORE FAMEHe would go to a lumberyard to do flips into pools of saw dust while he was growing up.
PERSONAL LIFEHe had three children with his wife Denise, whom he divorced in 1996.
The meaning of the name Smith: Blacksmith Or Other Skilled Worker FUN FACTSBaseball player Ozzie Smith were born on Sunday, birthstone is Turquoise, the seaon was Winter in the Chinese year of Horse, it is 360 days until Ozzie Smith next birthday.
