James Robert Shilling (May 14, 1914 – September 12, 1986) was a professional baseball infielder who played for the 1939 Cleveland Indians and 1939 Philadelphia Phillies of Major League Baseball (MLB).

Listed at 5 feet 11 inches (1.80 m) and 175 pounds (79 kg), he threw and batted right-handed.

Shilling's minor league career spanned 1934 to 1948, with 1192 total games played for eight different teams; he did not play professionally for three seasons (1943–1945) during World War II.

Defensively, he committed 14 errors in 198 total chances for a .929 fielding percentage.

[2] Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1914,[3] Shilling served in the United States Navy during World War II.