Bea Chester
{{Short description|American baseball player}}
{{Infobox baseball biography
| name=Bea Chester
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| team=All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
| position=Third base
| birth_place=Brooklyn, New York, US
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| bats=Right
| throws=Right
| teams =
- South Bend Blue Sox (1943)
- Rockford Peaches (1944)
|highlights=
- 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.aagpbl.org/profiles/bea-chester/213|title=All-American Girls Professional Baseball League – Bea Chester|accessdate=2019-03-28}}
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.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}}[http://www.aagpbl.org/teams/south-bend-blue-sox/1943 1943 South Bend Blue Sox]. Retrieved 2019-03-28.{{cite news|url=https://sabr.org/research/enigma-hilda-chester|last=Edelman|first=Rob|title=The Enigma of Hilda Chester|work=Society for American Baseball Research|accessdate=2019-02-28}}
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.[http://www.aagpbl.org/teams/rockford-peaches/1944 1944 Rockford Peaches]. Retrieved 2019-03-28.All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Record Book
Chester could not be reached after leaving the league in 1944. She was a daughter of Hilda Chester, a mid-20th century superfan of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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 {{baseball year|1988}} to honor the entire All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.