David E. Jones (April 5, 1861 â May 1, 1937) was an American professional baseball player. He appeared in four games for the Baltimore Orioles of the American Association in 1882. Until 2017, his statistics were mistakenly attributed to Bill Jones, a fellow 19th-century catcher from New York.
In 2000, a man contacted researchers at SABR and claimed his grandfather, David Jones, had played for the Baltimore Orioles. This was not confirmed until seventeen years later when researcher Justin McKinney found a single sentence in an 1882 edition of the Utica Daily Press indicating that a David Jones of Ilion was going to be catching for the Orioles as well as a 1937 obituary in the Utica Observer Dispatch confirming that the David Jones who had recently died in that city had been a professional ballplayer.