Nathan Harris (born 1880) was an American baseball third baseman and captain in the pre-Negro leagues.

Harris stayed in Big Rapids during the winter months, coaching the football team at the Preparatory College.

In 1903, he played third base for the Cuban Giants of New York until he was injured in a game at Portland, Maine.

[4] Sportswriter and fellow player Jimmy Smith put Harris on his 1909 "All American Team.

Harris received votes listing him on the 1952 Pittsburgh Courier player-voted poll of the Negro Leagues' best players ever.