Charles Edward Coles (June 27, 1931 – January 25, 1996) was an American professional baseball player whose career extended from 1950 through 1963.

He had a five-game trial in Major League Baseball as an outfielder and pinch hitter for the 1958 Cincinnati Redlegs.

He threw and batted left-handed, stood 5 feet 9 inches (1.75 m) tall and weighed 180 pounds (82 kg).

Coles reached double figures in home runs in nine different minor-league seasons, exceeding 24 homers for three straight years (1956–1958).

At the tail end of the last of those seasons, Coles was called up by the Redlegs from the Double-A Nashville Vols after he had smashed 29 homers, scored 117 runs, driven in 107, and batted .307[1] playing in offense-friendly Sulphur Dell.