Hampden-Sydney College

Gladstone Smith was an outstanding two-sport athlete who signed a professional baseball contract following his junior campaign.  It took him only three years to establish himself as one of the finest athletes in Hampden-Sydney's history.

Although Smith was also a two-year starter at end for the Tiger football team, his greatest glory for H-SC came in baseball, where he was one of the Tigers' best ever.  As a freshman, Smith hit .343 as an outfielder, and was 4-2 as a pitcher.  As a sophomore in 1950, he hit .530 with 27 RBIs in leading the Tigers to the state championship.  That season he was also H-SC's top pitcher as he posted a 7-1 record with a 1.59 earned-run-average.  As a junior, Smith pitched a three-hit shutout with ten strikeouts in a victory over VPI.

Dr. Smith is a 1958 graduate of the Medical College of Virginia and is currently a physician at Retreat Hospital in Richmond.  He has been Director of the Virginia Blood Bank and a pathologist for Richmond Eye Hospital since 1967.