Pete Lapan

{{short description|American baseball player (1891–1953)}}

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{{Infobox baseball biography

|name=Pete Lapan

|position=Catcher

|image=Pete Lapan newspaper.png

|bats=Right

|throws=Right

|birth_date={{Birth date|1891|6|25}}

|birth_place=Easthampton, Massachusetts

|death_date={{death date and age|1953|1|5|1891|6|25}}

|death_place=Norwalk, California

|debutleague = MLB

|debutdate=September 16

|debutyear=1922

|debutteam= Washington Senators

|finalleague = MLB

|finaldate=May 3

|finalyear=1923

|finalteam= Washington Senators

|statleague = MLB

|stat1label=Batting average

|stat1value=.306

|stat2label=Home runs

|stat2value=1

|stat3label=Runs batted in

|stat3value=6

|teams=

}}

Peter Nelson Lapan (June 25, 1891 – January 5, 1953) was an American professional baseball player. He was a catcher over parts of two seasons (1922–23) with the Washington Senators. For his career, he compiled a .306 batting average and one home run in 40 at-bats, with six runs batted in.

He was born in Easthampton, Massachusetts and died in Norwalk, California at the age of 61.