James Cockman (April 26, 1873 – September 28, 1947) was a Canadian third baseman in Major League Baseball who played for the New York Highlanders in 1905.

[1] Cockman started his professional baseball career in 1896 and batted .300 that year for the Virginia League's Roanoke Magicians.

[3] Although Cockman did "pretty good work with the stick," he was released by Toronto in 1898[4] and then went to the Atlantic League's Reading Coal Heavers.

[1] At 32 years old, he was the oldest player to ever make his major league debut with the New York Yankees franchise.

[2] After short stints in Toronto and St. Paul, he played for the Western League's Lincoln Railsplitters from 1909 to 1911.