Clifford Roland Dapper (January 2, 1920 – February 8, 2011) was an American Major League Baseball catcher who played for the Brooklyn Dodgers during the 1942 season.

[1] Born in Los Angeles, Dapper began his baseball career at age 18 for the Class-B Bellingham Chinooks in the Western International League.

With many players unavailable due to World War II, Dapper got his shot at the majors in April 1942, appearing in eight games for Brooklyn.

He eventually played 1,623 minor-league games over a twenty-year span, hitting .274 and 102 homers before retiring in 1957,[2] the same year that his former team, the Brooklyn Dodgers, moved to his home town of Los Angeles.

[7] Following his baseball career, Dapper settled in Fallbrook, California, buying a ranch alongside former Dodgers teammate Duke Snider where they made a substantial living farming avocados and lemons on 60 acres.