Richard Edward Joyce (November 18, 1943 – January 23, 2007) was a pitcher who played in Major League Baseball during the 1965 season.

In 1961, after his graduation, the Boston Red Sox offered him a $100,000 signing bonus – an astounding figure at the time – but he rejected it to attend College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Joyce represented the United States in baseball at the 1964 Summer Olympics as a demonstration sport, one of seven pitchers on the team.

He started his professional career in 1965 with the Double-A Birmingham Barons and joined the big team late in the season.

Joyce died in Raleigh, North Carolina, at the age 63, shortly after undergoing a pair of heart surgeries.