Ken Clay

Kenneth Earl Clay (born April 6, 1954) is an American former Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher. He played for the New York Yankees (1977-1979), Texas Rangers (1980), and Seattle Mariners (1981), winning back-to-back World Series titles with the Yankees in 1977 and 1978. He was born in Lynchburg, Virginia.

Drafted by the Yankees in the second round of the 1972 Major League Baseball Draft, Clay soon emerged as one of the top pitching prospects in the Yankee organization. However, he never lived up to his potential, and was eventually traded away after three seasons in which he went 6–14 with a 4.72 earned run average. Clay's lack of success at the major league level is often cited as the catalyst for Yankees owner George Steinbrenner's desire to build his team through free agency and trades rather than relying upon his own farm system.

Following his brief major league career, Clay had several run-ins with the law. Most recently, he was sentenced to five years in jail for grand theft for creating a fake sales order at the Sarasota, Florida copy machine office in which he worked.