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@Hog Farm: It looks like this article received some substantial rewrite in the last five months. Have your concerns been addressed properly? Renerpho (talk) 20:48, 17 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• @Renerpho: - It's in progress - See Wikipedia:Featured article review/Lee Smith (baseball)/archive1 for a status update (which could use a little help as well). Hog Farm _Talk 20:58, 17 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

This biographical article skips from its subject's birthplace (which isn't in the body of the article) to his time in high school. There is nothing about his parents, family, etc. If this isn't known, the article should say so, but I can hardly imagine a living American, particularly one of this stature, has nothing about his early life on record somewhere. Not including it seems like laziness. Piledhigheranddeeper (talk) 00:01, 5 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]