:Lester Lockett

{{Short description|Negro League Baseball player (1912–2005)}}

{{Infobox baseball biography

| name=Lester Lockett

| image=Lester Lockett.jpg

| position=Outfielder/Infielder

| birth_date={{Birth date|1912|3|25|mf=y}}
Princeton, Indiana, U.S.

| death_date={{death date and age|2005|10|4|1912|3|25|mf=y}}
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.

| bats=Right

| throws=Right

| debutleague=Negro league baseball

| debutdate=

| debutyear=1937

| debutteam=St. Louis Stars

| finaldate=

| finalyear=1948

| finalteam=Baltimore Elite Giants

| statyear=

| statleague=

| stat1label = Batting average

| stat1value = .286

| stat3label = Home runs

| stat3value = 9

| stat4label = Runs batted in

| stat4value = 184

| teams=

• St. Louis Stars (1937)
• Birmingham Black Barons (1938)
• Chicago American Giants (1939)
• Birmingham Black Barons (1941–1942)
• Chicago American Giants (1942)
• Birmingham Black Barons (1943–1946)
• Indianapolis Clowns (1946)
• Baltimore Elite Giants (1947–1948)

| highlights=

• 4× All-Star (1943, 1945, 1948)
• Negro National League batting champion (1948)

}}

Lester Lockett (March 25, 1912 – October 4, 2005) was an American baseball player in the Negro leagues. He played from 1937 to 1948 with several teams.{{cite book|last=Riley|first=James A.|title=The Biographical Encyclopedia of the Negro Baseball Leagues|url=https://archive.org/details/biographicalency00rile|url-access=registration|place=New York|publisher=Carroll & Graf|year=1994|isbn=0-7867-0959-6}}

In February 1997, he was living at a YMCA in Lake View, Chicago and carried a briefcase full of memorabilia from his baseball career.{{cite news |last1=Falsani |first1=Cathleen |title=Immortalized in extra innings |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/chicago-tribune-immortalized-in-extra-in/128806992/ |access-date=24 July 2023 |work=Chicago Tribune |date=7 February 1997}}