John Fulton Woods (January 18, 1898 – October 4, 1946) was a professional baseball pitcher and police officer.

In 1970, his widow told the Cleveland Plain Dealer that Woods starred in baseball, basketball, and track and field while in high school.

[2] After completing high school, Woods worked as a timekeeper for the Virginian Railway while living in Princeton in 1918, then served briefly in the United States Army through a collaboration with Washington and Lee University.

[2] Woods enrolled at West Virginia University in 1920, playing college baseball for the Mountaineers from his freshman year through the 1923 season.

[2] With Boston trailing Chicago 8–4, the right-handed Woods relieved Red Ruffing to begin the eighth inning.

Then, he issued another walk to Ted Blankenship before getting Johnny Mostil to pop out to third baseman Homer Ezzell in foul territory.

[2] After the 1924 season, the Spartanburg Spartans of the Class C South Atlantic League acquired Woods's contract, then sold it back to the Red Sox on March 20, 1925.

[6] According to baseball historian Frank Russo, Woods also played for the Binghamton Triplets of the Class B New York-Penn League in 1925.

[2] On October 4, 1946, Woods was responding to a car crash on Cottage Toll Road (now known as Tidewater Drive).

[1][2] Only 48 years old, Woods was buried in Block 9, Lot 19, Space W of the Forest Lawn Cemetery in Norfolk on October 6.