Chester Baseball History
Baseball in Chester reaches back even further than the players featured.
In 1884, the Chester Blue Stockings played as a professional minor league team in the Keystone Association, making them one of the city’s earliest organized baseball clubs. They played their home games at Union Park, showing that Chester was part of Pennsylvania’s early professional baseball landscape, not just a city that later produced standout players. Chester teams returned in later years under the city name in leagues such as the Pennsylvania State League (1901), Pennsylvania League (1904), Atlantic League (1907), Pennsylvania-New Jersey League (1908), and Tri-State League (1912). Together, the Blue Stockings and the later Chester teams show that baseball in Chester was not only a neighborhood pastime. It was part of the city’s organized sports history for decades.
Chester Police 1979
Manager: Fred Ungarino, Assistant: Pat Namoli, Ryan Bradley, Darren Laws, Ivan Porto, Rich Brown, Vince Collins, Freddie Calixto, Robbie Coley, Ben White, Oscar Nance, Charles Dorsey, Wayne Weathers, John Walker, Leon Carroll, Rodney Lee
Chester East All Star 1979
Manager: Fred Ungarino, Asst.: John Dougherty, Mike Molitteri, Gus Franklyn, Joey Ferrantte, Billy Hall, Artie Tull, Shawn Thompson, Hank Robinson, Frank Carter, Clarence Granberry, Larry Stephenson, James Dickerson, Matt Freeman, Morris Castleberry, John Lewis, Joe Chubb, Ron Harris