:Ri Jones

{{Short description|American baseball player (1859–1936)}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}

{{Infobox baseball biography

|name=Ri Jones

|image=

|position=Infielder

|bats=Right

|throws=Right

|birth_date={{birth date|1859|2|4|mf=y}}

|birth_place=Terrace Park, Ohio

|death_date={{death date and age|1936|11|29|1859|2|4}}

|death_place=Fresno, California

|debutleague = MLB

|debutdate=August 13

|debutyear=1883

|debutteam=Louisville Eclipse

|finalleague = MLB

|finaldate=August 27

|finalyear=1884

|finalteam=Cincinnati Outlaw Reds

|statleague = MLB

|stat1label=Batting average

|stat1value=.254

|stat2label=Home runs

|stat2value=2

|stat3label=Runs scored

|stat3value=37

|teams=

• Louisville Eclipse ({{mlby|1883}})
• Cincinnati Outlaw Reds ({{mlby|1884}})

}}

Uriah Louis "Ri" Jones (February 4, 1859 – November 29, 1936) was an American Major League Baseball player who played infielder from {{baseball year|1883}} to {{baseball year|1884}}. He played for the Louisville Eclipse and Cincinnati Outlaw Reds.

During the few years that Jones played professional baseball, he would spend his winters working on the railroads. Believing there was no future for him in baseball, Jones eventually quit the sport so that he could work on the railroads year-round.{{cite news |last1=Lane |first1=Howard |title=Baseball Memories |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-fresno-bee-baseball-memories/140217655/ |access-date=4 February 2024 |work=The Fresno Bee |date=24 May 1931 |pages=34}}