James Christopher Maloney (born September 6, 1961, at Jackson, Mississippi) is an American minor league baseball manager. A former minor league first baseman and outfielder, he began the 2009 season as the skipper of the Memphis Redbirds of the Pacific Coast League, his third consecutive season as manager of the St. Louis Cardinals' Triple-A farm club.

Maloney graduated from St. Joseph High School in Jackson and from Mississippi State University^[1]. He signed with the New York Mets in 1983 and played four seasons of minor league baseball in the Mets and Cardinals organizations, never rising above the Class A level. In his finest season, 1984 with the Columbia Mets of the South Atlantic League, he batted .324 in 173 at bats with three home runs and 24 runs batted in. A switch-hitter who threw right-handed, Maloney stood 5'11" (1.8 m) and weighed 180 pounds (82 kg) during his playing career.

Maloney became a minor league manager in the Cardinals' system in 1991 with the Rookie-level Johnson City Cardinals of the Appalachian League. In 17 seasons (1991-96; 1998-2008) as a manager, his teams have won 1,114 games and lost 1,054 (.514) with one league championship. With the exception of three seasons (2002-04) as manager of the New Orleans Zephyrs, top farm club of the Houston Astros at the time, all of those years have been spent with the Cardinals' organization.

His father, J. Con Maloney, was the longtime owner of the Jackson Mets and Jackson Generals of the Texas League, and a co-owner (with Nolan Ryan and family) of Round Rock Baseball, owners of the Round Rock Express.

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• Playing and managing record, from Baseball Reference