Bea Chester

Bea Chester
All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
Third base
Born: Brooklyn, New York
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 was an utility infielder who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. She batted and threw right-handed.[1]

A native of Brooklyn, New York, Bea 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.[2][3]

She 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.[4][5]

Chester could not be reached after leaving the league in 1944.[1]

She 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.

Career statistics

Batting

GPABRH2B3BHRRBISBTBBBSOBAOBPSLG
29100102022097261316.200.292.260

Fielding

GPPOAETCDPFA
17253117731.767

[1][5]

Sources

  1. 1 2 3 "All-American Girls Professional Baseball League official website – profile".
  2. ↑ 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
  3. ↑ 1943 South Bend Blue Sox
  4. ↑ 1944 Rockford Peaches
  5. 1 2 All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Record Book
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