EX-BALLPLAYER WINDS UP IN JAIL ON THEFT CHARGE

                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: THURSDAY, February 13, 1992                   TAG: 9202130365
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-3   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: BEDFORD                                LENGTH: Short
EX-BALLPLAYER WINDS UP IN JAIL ON THEFT CHARGE
Former New York Yankees pitcher Ken Clay will report to the Bedford County Jail on Monday.
Clay, convicted last year of stealing $551.76 from a Bedford County car dealership where he worked, was sentenced to one year in jail Wednesday. A judge upheld the sentence that was determined earlier by a jury.
Clay also was fined $1,000, according to Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney Philip Baker.
Clay, who also pitched for the Texas Rangers and the Seattle Mariners and played in two World Series, took money from a customer for his own use - instead of for the warranty the woman thought she was buying.
The 37-year-old Lynchburg native and graduate of E.C. Glass High School was finance and insurance manager at Jim McQuade Pontiac-GMC Inc. in Forest in August 1990 when the grand larceny took place.
It's not the first time the former pitcher has run into legal trouble.
In 1987, Clay pleaded guilty in neighboring Campbell County to two counts of grand larceny for stealing more than $16,000 from a ring distributor when he was a salesman for that company.

by Bhavesh Jinadra by CNB