Jerome Willis "Red" Downs (August 23, 1883 – October 19, 1939), was a Major League Baseball player, who gained notoriety later in life as an armed robber during the Great Depression.

Sporting Life, in August 1912, reported that "Jerry Downs is proving a good substitute for Johnny Evers.

"[1] From 1913 to 1918, Downs played for the San Francisco Seals in the Pacific Coast League, including the 1915 PCL championship team.

Downs also served as the Seals' manager at the end of the 1917 season, leading the team to another PCL pennant.

"Liquor has put me out for the third time", said Downs to a police detective upon his arrest for armed robbery in 1932.

In March 1932, Downs and another man robbed a jewelry store at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles.