{{short description|American baseball player}} {{about|the baseball player|the tennis player|Louise Brough Clapp}} {{Infobox baseball biography | name=Louise Clapp | image= | image_size= | team= | position=Pitcher | birth_date={{birth_date|1934|05|12|mf=y}}<ref name=Ancestry.com>{{cite web |url=http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?gl=ROOT_CATEGORY&rank=1&new=1&so=3&MSAV=0&msT=1&gss=ms_f-2_s&gsfn=Louise&gsln=Clapp&mswpn__ftp=Harrod%2C+Allen%2C+Ohio%2C+USA&mswpn=50480&mswpn_PInfo=8-%7C0%7C1652393%7C0%7C2%7C3247%7C38%7C0%7C150%7C50480%7C0%7C&msbdy=1936&uidh=000 |title= Ancestry.com – Search for Louise Lucelia Clapp: b. 12 May 1934 (Harrod, Allen County, Ohio); d. 17 October 1967 (Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio)}}</ref> | birth_place=Harrod, Ohio, U.S.<ref name=Ancestry.com/> | death_date={{death_date and age|1967|10|17|1934|05|12}}<ref name=Ancestry.com/> | death_place=Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.<ref name=Ancestry.com/> | bats=Right | throws=Right | teams = *Fort Wayne Daisies (1954) *South Bend Blue Sox (1954) |highlights= *Women in Baseball – AAGPBL Permanent Display<br>at Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum (1988) }}
'''Louise Lucelia Clapp''' (May 12, 1934 – October 17, 1967) was a pitcher who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL). She batted and threw right-handed.<ref name=AAGPBL>{{cite web |url=https://www.aagpbl.org/profiles/louise-clapp/255|title=All-American Girls Professional Baseball League – Louise Clapp|accessdate=2026-02-24}}</ref>
Little is known about this player who saw action in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League during the 1954 season.
Clapp split the year between the Fort Wayne Daisies and South Bend Blue Sox teams. She hurled five innings of ball in three pitching appearances.<ref name=AAGPBL/>
The league folded at the end of the season. Clapp was not located after that.<ref name=AAGPBL/>
She is part of ''Women in Baseball'', a permanent display based at the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York, which was unveiled in 1988 to honor the entire All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.
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