Cross (January 6, 1858 – April 2, 1933, born Joseph Kriz) was a Major League Baseball right fielder who played one game for the Louisville Colonels in 1888.

Unusually, Joe Cross was not listed in baseball reference books for over a century.

The game had long been credited to Lave Cross in the record books, but a contemporaneous report in The Cleveland Plain Dealer noted for the September 5 match that after a seventh inning injury to a player: "Cross of the Graphics, a brother of Lave, a Louisville catcher, took (Toad Ramsey)'s place in right."

This and other corroborating evidence placed Joe Cross in the game and in the record books, after over a century of waiting.

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