Don Werner

{{short description|American baseball player (born 1953)}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}

{{Infobox baseball biography

|image=1985 Nashville Don Werner.jpg

|width=

|caption=Werner with the Nashville Sounds in 1985

|name=Don Werner

|position=Catcher

|bats=Right

|throws=Right

|birth_date= {{Birth date and age|1953|3|8}}

|birth_place=Appleton, Wisconsin, U.S.

|debutleague = MLB

|debutdate=September 2

|debutyear=1975

|debutteam=Cincinnati Reds

|finalleague = MLB

|finaldate=September 19

|finalyear=1982

|finalteam=Texas Rangers

|statleague = MLB

|stat1label=Batting average

|stat1value=.176

|stat2label=Home runs

|stat2value=2

|stat3label=Runs batted in

|stat3value=24

|teams=

• Cincinnati Reds ({{By|1975}}–{{By|1978}}, {{By|1980}})
• Texas Rangers ({{By|1981}}–{{By|1982}})

}}

Donald Paul Werner (born March 8, 1953) is an American former Major League Baseball catcher. He played during seven seasons at the major league level, playing for the Cincinnati Reds and Texas Rangers. In 1978, the Reds starting catcher, Johnny Bench, sat out 20 plus games with an injury which gave Don a starting role. On June 16 of the same year he caught the only no-hitter of Hall of Famer Tom Seaver's career. He was drafted by the Reds in the 5th round of the {{By|1971}} amateur draft after graduating from Appleton East High School. Werner played his first professional season with their Rookie League Gulf Coast Reds in 1971, and his last with Texas' Triple-A club, the Oklahoma RedHawks in {{By|1988}}.