John Ducey (baseball)

John Eugene Ducey (August 31, 1908 – September 11, 1983) was a Canadian baseball executive and umpire. He operated the semi-professional Edmonton Eskimos baseball team from 1946 to 1959, and was briefly their manager. He organized the Alberta Senior Amateur Baseball League until the 1950 season, transferred the Eskimos into the Western International League, then organized the Western Canada Baseball League in 1955, which later became the Canadian-American Baseball League. In 1964, he was a co-founder of the Edmonton Oldtimers Baseball Association to recognize the city's baseball history.

Beginning in baseball as a bat boy and playing amateur baseball in Edmonton, he umpired for fifteen seasons including time in the Northern Professional Baseball League. He was briefly a sportswriter for the Edmonton Bulletin, and worked winters in public relations for hockey and managing arenas in the United States, and the Edmonton Junior Hockey League. He was twice Edmonton's "Sportsman of the Year", was inducted into the Edmonton Sports Hall of Fame, the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame, and the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame. Edmonton's stadium was renamed John Ducey Park after his death.