Bea Chester

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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 a utility infielder who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. She batted and threw right-handed.[1][2]

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.[3][4][5]

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.[6][7]

Chester could not be reached after leaving the league in 1944.[1] She was a daughter of Hilda Chester, a mid-20th century superfan of the Brooklyn Dodgers.[5]

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

GP AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB TB BB SO BA OBP SLG
29 100 10 20 2 2 0 9 7 26 13 16 .200 .292 .260

Fielding

GP PO A E TC DP FA
17 25 31 17 73 1 .767

[1][7]

Sources[]

  1. ^ a b c "All-American Girls Professional Baseball League – Bea Chester". Retrieved 2019-03-28.
  2. ^ "Bea Chester". Baseball-Reference.com. 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. ^ a b All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Record Book
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