James Henry Foran (1847 – November 29, 1906) was an American Major League Baseball player from Pennsylvania, and a participant in the first game ever played in a professional baseball league, between his Fort Wayne Kekiongas and the Cleveland Forest Citys on May 4, 1871. Foran had one single in four at-bats, one of only four hits Ft. Wayne had that day; nonetheless, the Kekiongas won, 2-0. Jim Foran died in Newark, New Jersey, and is interred at the Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in Newark.