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
South Bend Blue Sox (1943) Rockford Peaches (1944)
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

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]^[5]

Sources

↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "All-American Girls Professional Baseball League official website – profile".
↑ 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
↑ 1943 South Bend Blue Sox
↑ 1944 Rockford Peaches
↑ 5.0 5.1 All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Record Book

v t e All-American Girls Professional Baseball League

Teams	Battle Creek Belles Chicago Colleens Fort Wayne Daisies Grand Rapids Chicks Kalamazoo Lassies Kenosha Comets Milwaukee Chicks Minneapolis Millerettes Muskegon Belles Muskegon Lassies Peoria Redwings Racine Belles Rockford Peaches South Bend Blue Sox Springfield Sallies

Seasons	1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954

Awards and recognition	All-Star Team Player of the Year Batting records Fielding records Pitching records

Related articles	List of managers List of players Rules of play A League of Their Own Arthur Meyerhoff Philip K. Wrigley

Persondata
Name	Chester, Bea
Alternative names
Short description	All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player
Date of birth
Place of birth	Brooklyn, New York
Date of death
Place of death

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