Dan Duran (baseball)

Daniel James Duran (born March 16, 1954) is a former Major League Baseball player. Duran played for the Texas Rangers in the 1981 season. In 13 games, Duran had four hits in 16 at-bats, with one run scored. He played left field, and batted and threw left-handed.

Duran is of Indigenous Mexican descent. He attended Sunnyvale High School in California where he played baseball and football. He was recruited but not offered a scholarship to play college football at Stanford and offered a scholarship to play college baseball at UC Davis. He ultimately chose to attend Foothill College. During his offseasons in the minors, he worked in construction.

He was drafted by the Rangers in the 30th round of the 1973 amateur draft.