Clay Smith

Clay Smith was born in Cambridge in 1914 and attended Southwestern College in Winfield where he was on the baseball, basketball, wrestling and track teams.

Smith began pitching professionally in the Cleveland organization and made his major league debut with the Indians in 1938, appearing in four games.

In 1940, Smith was traded to Detroit and called up in the middle of the season.  In the 1940 World Series, he relieved starter Dizzy Trout, stopped a Cincinnati rally and pitched four innings.  It would be his last appearance in the major leagues.

Smith pitched in the minor leagues with the St. Paul Saints until 1943 when he returned home and worked as a rancher and mail carrier near Cambridge.  

He died in 2002 at the age of 71 and is buried in the buried in Cambridge Cemetery.