Austin Bush McHenry (September 22, 1895 – November 27, 1922) was a professional baseball player who played outfielder in the Major Leagues from 1918 to 1922 for the St. Louis Cardinals.

By October 1915, a column in the Portsmouth Daily Times said that McHenry had the potential to play in the major leagues.

[2] Invited to spend spring training with the Cincinnati Reds before the 1918 season, McHenry sustained a broken nose when he was struck by a foul ball off the bat of Sherry Magee.

He began to have difficulty judging and catching fly balls in the outfield, and his batting statistics also suffered.

Writing to Rickey from the hospital, he used a baseball analogy to describe his tenuous health situation: "I'm afraid it is three and two on me in the bottom of the ninth.

His physicians had determined there was no hope for McHenry's survival and thought he should spend his last days at home with family members.