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Carlos Smith (1878 – 1955) was a professional baseball player whose career spent 12 seasons in the minor leagues. Over that time, Smith played for the Natchez Indians (1902), the New Orleans Pelicans (1902), the Portland Browns (1903), the Seattle Siwashes (1903–04), the Birmingham Barons (1905–08), the Indianapolis Indians (1909), the Shreveport Pirates (1909–1910), the Hattiesburg Woodpeckers–Timberjacks (1911–12), the Columbus Joy Riders (1912), the Meridian Metropolitans (1913).

Early and personal life
Carlos Smith was born in 1878 in Lincoln County, Mississippi]]. Smith attended the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi in 1901. He played on the school's baseball team. He married in March 1904. The ceremony was private, not even his teammates were aware of the arrangement.

Professional career
In 1902, Smith was signed by the minor league Natchez Indians of the Class-D Cotton States League. For the Indians, Smith was used primarily as a pitcher, compiling 27 wins in 33 games pitched. His batting average was .389. Before the end of the season, he was drafted by the minor league New Orleans Pelicans of the Class-A Southern Association. Smith played just five games with the Pelicans, batted .368 with seven hits, one triple and one home run. At the start of the 1903 season, Smith signed with the Portland Browns of the independent Pacific Coast League. Scouts from other Pacific Coast League teams attempted to lure Smith to their club. However, Smith turned the scouts down and stayed with Portland. Just as the season was getting underway, the Browns released Smith. He was then signed by the Seattle Siwashes, also of the Pacific Coast League. Between the two clubs that year, Smith batted .323 with 252 hits, 38 doubles, 14 doubles and six home runs in 193 games played. While most of the season Smith played outfielder, he did pitch in four games that season, compiling a 1–3 record in 34$1/3$ innings pitched. He finished third in the league in home runs, tied for third in triples and fifth in hits.

Smith returned to the Seattle Siwashes of the Pacific Coast League in 1904. On the year, Smith batted .283 with 243 hits, 52 doubles, 11 triples and seven home runs in 217 games played. Smith led the league in doubles, was fourth in home runs and fifth in hits. At the start of the 1905 season, it was announced that Smith was not a member of Seattle's roster for the upcoming season. Initially, it was reported that Smith declined a 1905 contract with the Siwashes because he need to move to the Southern United States due to his wife's failing health. However, it was announced some time later that Smith declined the contract because he felt the payment was too low. Before the start of the 1905 season, Smith signed with the Birmingham Barons of the Class-A Southern Association. On the year, he batted .287 with 128 hits in 120 games played.