On Celebrity Family Feud, host Steve Harvey will welcome a team of MLB legends headed by Ozzie Smith. The baseball pros – Pedro Martinez, Kevin Millar, Prince Fielder, Harold Reynolds, and Smith — will play against a team of NBA legends headed by James Worthy. On Worthy’s team is Robert Horry, Muggsy Bogues, Gary Payton, and Horace Grant.
[pictured link: Ozzie Smith poster, doing at backflip in St. Louis]
Ozzie Smith is the 62-year-old former shortstop who played for the San Diego Padres and St. Louis Cardinals from 1978 to 1996. His nickname was The Wizard. Smith set a number of MLB records including the National League record of career games at shortstop (2,511). He won the NL Gold Glove Award for 13 consecutive seasons (1980-1992), and was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2002. Smith was raised in the Watts section of Los Angeles (he was 10 during the Watts Riots), went to Locke High School and went to Cal Poly San Luis Obispo in 1974 on a partial academic scholarship. While playing baseball at Cal Poly he learned to switch-hit. Fun fact: Smith is the father of three including R&B singer son Nikko Smith who made it to the top ten finals of American Idol in 2012. Celebrity Family Feud airs Sundays at 8pm on ABC.