Greatest 21 Days Baseball Profiles

Tossed from a June 2007 game, Phillies coach Steve Smith received a three-game suspension. The suspension was over a dispute with an umpire . It wasn't something new to the coach. The previous year, the coach had gotten five games for inadvertantly spitting chewing tobacco in an umpire's eye, MLB.com wrote . "Do I think [three games is] harsh? Yeah," Smith asked MLB.com that June. "They explained it was because I came out on the field. That's one day. The other two days are for my history. I've been thrown out a few times over the years." Getting thrown out a few times isn't the only thing Smith has done over the years. He's done a lot more. He's been a player and manager in the minor leagues. He's been a coach in the major leagues . He's even been on TV and in the movies, as a reality show contestant with his daughter and a movie extra in his youth. Along the way, he helped assure the Mariners that first round p...

In baseball for 30 years, 1990 CMC set member Steve Smith finally won his World Series ring in 2008 as a coach with the Phillies. Last night, after he and his daughter Allie were eliminated in the eighth episode of The Amazing Race , Steve noted that, on his list of life accomplishments, the World Series had been bumped down one. "I've got a World Series ring," Steve said at the end of Sunday night's broadcast. "I have to tell you, people might think I'm crazy, but this jumps ahead of it." Steve, of course, was referring to spending time with his daughter traveling the world. "I want to cry," Allie said after being eliminated. "It's been so much fun. ... This whole thing was so special. I had the time of my life with you. It's something we will have forever." Steve and Allie had been a strong team, finishing in the top half for several legs, even finishing first in the previous leg. But a series of bad decisions and bad luck t...

Steve Smith and his daughter Allie had been running a good race, finishing in the top half almost every leg. Last week on The Amazing Race , they even finished first. But, Steve said in a CBS.com video , on their way to their first-place finish, their success went to his head. "I got cocky," Steve said in the video. He was referring to them losing their bags. They dropped them at a challenge. When they realized they needed them and wouldn't be going back, it was too late. In the CBS.com videos, the 1990 CMC set member and his daughter were upbeat, despite the loss of their bags. They had their passports and money, so they didn't really need their bags. Last season, a team was eliminated when one member lost his passport. Steve said that has been on his mind. "Every second, I'm feeling for it," Steve said of his passport. "For right now, we're celebrating it and enjoying it." Once tonight's leg starts, they'll be able to buy some cl...

Last week's episode was another easy finish for 1990 CMC setter Steve Smith and his daughter Allie. The pair finished third, after several weeks finishing second. In videos on CBS.com , Steve explained another secret to their success, the father-daughter angle. They just introduce themselves as a dad traveling with his daughter and hopefully whoever they're talking to will relate. "There's something about, you know, your daughter, there's no threat or anything like that," Steve said. The pair were also helped by Steve, the oldest competitor left, bringing his reading glasses, and not by Allie's French. Allie spoke in the same video of not being a fan of her college French classes. But in another video, Steve talks of searching the winery for one marked bottle. The mark was small, something he couldn't see without his glasses. He's also better with patience challenges. "I'm usually five minutes better at not panicking than she is," th...

Steve Smith and his daughter Allie showed their race skills again last week, coming in again in second place. Now Steve has told USA Today what may be their secret: his time in the minor leagues. "I had 20 years in the minors," the member of the 1990 CMC set told the paper in a story Friday . "I made every ride. Baseball is a grind, you play 162 games. My daughter used to come and see me every summer, so she was used to traveling, too. We were perfect." Last week's episode took them from Germany to France, picking up a baggette, taking part in a World War I reenactment, and donning mustaches for a bike ride. That's them in the picture above from CBS.com . They escaped a U-Turn, having to do an extra challenge, when the lead team, Rhode Island police officers Louie and Michael chose another team, Joe and Heidi. However, from the outside, the better choice for Louie and Michael would have been Steve and Allie. They've proven to be a strong team, and the...

Steve Smith and his daughter Allie are turning into a force in the race. Last week, they finished in second place for the second week in a row. They're going for another leg tonight at 8/7 c on CBS. Of course, last weeks' leg had what they referred to as the "perfect challenge" for the CMC setter Smith, a beer drinking challenge. But the extra scenes on CBS.com from last week's episode help show why they've done so well: The daughter and the major league baseball coach, who is notable for his on-field tirades , - they're just nice people. In one, they're discussing the "all nighter" they're in, driving to the next challenge. Steve notes they can sleep later. Frequently teams can get testy on lack of sleep. They're having a discussion where Allie says she's never done an all nighter. The dad says he's pulled a lot them. Then they realize, she's talking about studying. He's talking about partying. "That means I was...

Something that can help a lot on a show like The Amazing Race is working well with your teammate. That's what Steve and Allie have been doing these first three legs and it paid off in Leg 3 with a second place finish. That teamwork showed at the hay bale roping challenge, with daughter Allie yelling "concentrate, you got it" as her father roped the hay bale. Then there was the wooden horse polo challenge, with daughter helping dad onto the tipping horse. The Greatest 21 Days is following Steve Smith's progress on The Amazing Race as he is actually a part of the set. He is currently the third-base coach for the Cleveland Indians, but in 1990, he was the manager of the Oklahoma City 89ers. Steve's sports background showed on the polo challenge. He managed to hit the ball through the goal quickly. He also figured out that they didn't have to actually get on the horse, they could just lean over it and hit the ball. As they moved the heavy horse toward the goal,...

If it looked like Steve Smith and his daughter Allie had an easier time of it in Leg 2, there was apparently a reason. According to a secret scene on CBS.com, the two found a local named Roberto who showed them around the local university, helping them with directions, Internet access and even buying them dinner. The scene is embedded above. "It was awesome, that guy missed a class," Steve told the camera, saying he believed his son would do the same, though not necessarily for the same reasons. "I asked if he had a sinorita, he said 'no time, no time, study, study, study." He said he hoped his son would hear that. The Greatest 21 Days is following Smith's progress on The Amazing Race as he is actually a part of the set. He is currently the third-base coach for the Cleveland Indians, but in 1990, he was the manager of the Oklahoma City 89ers. On the episode itself, Steve and Allie were almost invisible, which can be a good thing. My wife hardly noticed them....

Steve Smith's big introduction to The Amazing Race audience was as a father wanting to spend time with his daughter. He'd been in baseball for more than three decades. By the time he managed Oklahoma City in 1990 (making him card 171 of the 1990 CMC set), his daughter was 3. Steve Smith, Amazing Manager "In baseball, you're gone seven months of the year," Smith told the camera. "We need something the rest of our lives that we can come back and say 'wow, we actually did that.'" That was the take on Smith through the entire first leg of Amazing Race 16. Bonus clip with Steve and Allie talking about their relationship: But the Amazing Race can be an unforgiving competition. When the pressure's high, tempers can run short. And Race producers aren't shy showing those moments. It makes for good television, but also strains relationships. As we saw earlier , Smith is no stranger to arguments. On the baseball field, he's been suspended multi...

Be sure and check out the revisited Steve Smith post from March 2011: Steve Smith, Did A Lot When you start a project like this, looking at 880 players and coaches from a 20-year-old set, you're bound to see things differently. You start to see set members everywhere. They're managing and coaching teams, they're pitching against each other in the 2004 World Series, they're taking swings at umpires in Dominican league games. Last night, I saw one on The Amazing Race . Seriously. Steve Smith , the sometimes volatile one-time manager of the Oklahoma City 89ers and current third base coach with the Cleveland Indians, is competing on the CBS reality travel show, the same show that happens to be among my favorites, if not my favorite show. For those who aren't fans, the show pits teams of two in a race around the world. The teams have some relationship: relatives, friends and such. Smith is competing with his daughter, Allie. That's them up top, from a CBS slides...