Walter Clarkson

{{short description|American baseball player}}

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

{{Infobox baseball biography

|name=Walter Clarkson

|position=Pitcher

|image=Walter Clarkson.jpg

|bats=Right

|throws=Right

|birth_date={{Birth date|1878|11|3|mf=y}}

|birth_place=Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.

|death_date={{Death date and age|1946|10|10|1878|11|3}}

|death_place=Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.

|debutleague = MLB

|debutdate=July 2

|debutyear=1904

|debutteam=New York Highlanders

|finalleague = MLB

|finaldate=April 28

|finalyear=1908

|finalteam=Cleveland Naps

|statleague = MLB

|stat1label=Win–loss record

|stat1value=18–16

|stat2label=Earned run average

|stat2value=3.17

|stat3label=Strikeouts

|stat3value=178

|teams=

• New York Highlanders ({{mlby|1904}}–{{mlby|1907}})
• Cleveland Naps ({{mlby|1907}}–{{mlby|1908}})

}}

Walter Hamilton Clarkson (November 3, 1878 – October 10, 1946) was an American pitcher in Major League Baseball. He played for the New York Highlanders from 1904 to 1907 and the Cleveland Naps from 1907 to 1908.

Clarkson attended Harvard University, where he played college baseball for the Crimson from 1898 to 1903.{{cite web|title=Harvard University Baseball Players Who Made It to the Major Leagues|url=http://www.baseball-almanac.com/college/harvard_university_baseball_players.shtml|work=Baseball-Almanac.com|accessdate=March 8, 2013|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130128042158/http://www.baseball-almanac.com/college/harvard_university_baseball_players.shtml|url-status=live|archivedate=January 28, 2013}}

Clarkson spent the beginning of 1905 coaching the Army Black Knights baseball team but left the team in March to join the Highlanders for spring training in Montgomery, Alabama.{{cite news |title=Fultz Signs Contract |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-new-york-times-fultz-signs-contract/139310150/ |access-date=22 January 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=7 March 1905 |pages=7}}

He was a younger brother of fellow baseball players John and Dad Clarkson, as well as of golf and billiards player T. Henry Clarkson.