Walter Joseph Tragesser (June 14, 1887 – October 2, 1970) was a professional baseball player.

He was a catcher over parts of seven seasons (1913, 1915–1920) with the Boston Braves and Philadelphia Phillies.

For his career, he compiled a .215 batting average, with six home runs and 66 runs batted in.

An alumnus of Purdue University, where he played college baseball for the Boilermakers from 1908–1909,[1] he was born and later died in Lafayette, Indiana at the age of 83.

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