Joseph Alexander Sargent (September 24, 1893 – July 5, 1950), nicknamed "Horse Belly," was an American baseball player.

[1] Sargent began playing professional baseball in the Central Association with the Marshalltown Ansons and Burlington Pathfinders/Ottumwa Packers in 1916 and with the La Crosse Infants in 1917.

In 1918, he advanced to the International League in 1918 playing for the Newark Bears and Jersey City Skeeters.

[1] Sargent continued to play in the minor leagues for the Portland Beavers in 1922, the Shreveport Gassers in 1923 and 1924, and the Tulsa Oilers in 1924.

[7] He suffered for much of his life from "blinding head pains" resulting from being gassed on Armistice Day while serving in France during World War I.