Bea Chester

Bea Chester
All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
Third base
Born: c.1921[1]
Brooklyn, New York, US
Bats: Right
Throws: Right
Teams
Career highlights and awards
  • Women in Baseball – AAGPBL Permanent Display
    at Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum (1988)

Bea Chester (born c.1921) was a utility infielder who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. She batted and threw right-handed.[2]

A native of Brooklyn, New York, Chester was one of the original South Bend Blue Sox founding members of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League in its 1943 inaugural season. She served primarily as a backup at third base for Lois Florreich, hitting a .190 batting average in 18 games.[3][4][5]

Chester opened 1944 with the Rockford Peaches, being used mostly as a pinch hitter and defensive replacement. She batted .214 that year, while collecting a .313 on-base percentage in 11 games.[6][7]

Chester could not be reached after leaving the league in 1944.[2] She was a daughter of Hilda Chester, a mid-20th century superfan of the Brooklyn Dodgers.[5]

Chester is part of Women in Baseball, a permanent display based at the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York, which was unveiled in 1988 to honor the entire All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.

  1. ^ "1930 United States Federal Census". Ancestry. Retrieved 29 November 2022.
  2. ^ a b "All-American Girls Professional Baseball League – Bea Chester". Retrieved 2019-03-28.
  3. ^ All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Record Book – W. C. Madden. Publisher: McFarland & Company, 2000. Format: Hardcover, 294pp. Language: English. ISBN 0-7864-0597-X
  4. ^ 1943 South Bend Blue Sox. Retrieved 2019-03-28.
  5. ^ a b Edelman, Rob. "The Enigma of Hilda Chester". Society for American Baseball Research. Retrieved 2019-02-28.
  6. ^ 1944 Rockford Peaches. Retrieved 2019-03-28.
  7. ^ All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Record Book