Gene Covington Vance (born January 5, 1947) is a former pitcher in Major League Baseball.

Arm injuries during the 1971 season (2–1 record) eventually forced an early retirement from baseball at age 26 in 1973.

He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with a 37-year career in land planning and landscape architecture.

[citation needed] He continues to give pitching lessons in his spare time to local teens.

He and his wife, Dee—former owner of In Place, an all-women move coordinating company—have three children, Ryan (Content Executive for Tonal, a home workout system), Erik (science journalist and associate editor with the New York Times living in Colorado), and Heidi (life and nutrition coach working from Big Sky, Montana)