Hugh Thomas Casey (October 14, 1913 – July 3, 1951) was an American Major League Baseball pitcher.

He started his professional baseball career with the Atlanta Crackers of the Southern Association at the age of 18.

He is perhaps best known for an alleged wild pitch that he threw in the ninth inning of Game 4 in the 1941 World Series which precipitated a New York Yankees rally.

[7] On July 3, 1951, Casey died in Atlanta from a self-inflicted shotgun blast to the neck while his estranged wife was pleading with him on the phone.

[7] Casey was upset that he had recently been named as the father of a child by another woman in a paternity suit.