John James McAleese (August 22, 1878 – November 15, 1950) was an American Major League Baseball pitcher during the early 1900s.

[1] His brother, Daniel McAleese, played baseball for the Sharon Independent club in 1903 and for the Wellsville, New York team in 1904.

[2] McAleese began his career as a pitcher, and appeared in one game with the Chicago White Stockings in 1901 as a reliever.

[7][8][9] In 1914, McAleese purchased a hotel in Youngstown, Ohio, where he had previously played baseball prior to managing the club in Greenville.

[12][13] A resident of New York from the early 1940s through mid-November 1950, McAleese was ill for the final month of his life.