José Miguel Ángel Meléndez (April 8, 1908 – December 4, 1985), nicknamed El Chino, was a Nicaraguan baseball pitcher.

[3][1] In 1947, he played an exhibition game against the Brooklyn Dodgers, throwing six no-hit innings against a lineup that included Pee Wee Reese, Cookie Lavagetto, Carl Furillo, Bruce Edwards, and Floyd Bevens, and even managed to drive in a run off of Dodgers starter Kirby Higbe.

[1][6] The next year, he moved to organized baseball in the form of the Arizona–Texas League, playing with the Indios de Ciudad Juárez in 1948 and the El Paso Texans in 1949 and 1950.

[1] Meléndez was named to the Nicaragua national team at the III Central American and Caribbean Games in El Salvador, but did not play due to a controversy over his professional status.

[8] In total, he participated in 17 Amateur World Series games with a 3–3 overall record; he worked to a 2.66 cumulative ERA over 64 innings pitched, with 23 strikeouts and 28 walks.