Jim Gideon

{{short description|American baseball player (born 1953)}}

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

{{Infobox baseball biography

| name = Jim Gideon

| image =

| position = Pitcher

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1953|9|26}}

| birth_place = Taylor, Texas, U.S.

| death_date =

| bats = Right

| throws = Right

|debutleague = MLB

| debutdate = September 14

| debutyear = 1975

| debutteam = Texas Rangers

|finalleague = MLB

| finaldate = September 14

| finalyear = 1975

| finalteam = Texas Rangers

|statleague = MLB

| stat1label = Earned run average

| stat1value = 7.94

| stat3label = Strikeouts

| stat3value = 2

| teams =

• Texas Rangers (1975)

| hoflink = National College Baseball Hall of Fame

| hoftype = College

| hofdate = 2020

}}

James Leslie Gideon (born September 26, 1953) is an American former Major League Baseball pitcher who played for one season. He pitched for the Texas Rangers for one game on September 14 during the 1975 season. He was traded along with Roy Smalley III, Mike Cubbage and Bill Singer from the Rangers to the Minnesota Twins for Bert Blyleven and Danny Thompson on June 1, 1976.[https://www.nytimes.com/1976/06/02/archives/blyleven-goes-to-texas.html "Blyleven Goes to Texas," The Associated Press (AP), Tuesday, June 1, 1976.] Retrieved July 3, 2024.