William Donald Doran (born May 28, 1958) is a former second baseman in Major League Baseball who played from 1982 to 1993 with the Houston Astros, Cincinnati Reds and Milwaukee Brewers.

[1] Doran attended Mount Healthy High School and played baseball at the Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

Healthy, he starred in baseball, basketball, and football, leading the Owls to several league championships as an All-League quarterback.

[2] Selected by the Houston Astros in the sixth round of the 1979 amateur draft, Doran broke into the majors as a September call-up in the 1982 season.

In the fourth game of the year, he recorded his first career home run off John Candelaria of the Pittsburgh Pirates on April 10.

Dubiously, while he was second in a general amount of offensive categories to José Cruz, he led the Astros in times caught stealing (12).

He would lead the team in runs, stolen bases, and perhaps most dubiously in times caught stealing (19, which led the league).

[13] Before the 1987 season, Doran lost an arbitration case with the Astros, as he had sought a raise of $275,000 from his previous salary (which was $550,000), with the result being that he was paid only $625,000.

On August 30, he was traded for Terry McGriff, Keith Kaiser, and Butch Henry to the Cincinnati Reds, his hometown team.

[17] Although the Reds won the World Series that year, Doran had back surgery the day the team clinched the division pennant and he missed the rest of the season.

A purchase from Milwaukee in January 1993 did not lend itself to increased time,[19] as he would play just 28 games for the Brewers while dealing with injuries.

Doran never made an All-Star team, but was extraordinarily popular at The Astrodome and admired for his hustle and ferocity, reminiscent of Cincinnati native Pete Rose.

In 1999 and 2000, Doran served as the organization's minor league field coordinator, director of player development and assistant to the general manager.