Chester Earl Lemon was born on February 12,1955 and is a former Major League Baseball outfielder.
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37 Facts About Chet Lemon
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Chet Lemon was drafted in the first round of the 1972 Major League Baseball draft and played 16 seasons in Major League Baseball for the Chicago White Sox from 1975 to 1981 and for the Detroit Tigers from 1982 to 1990.
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Chet Lemon was selected as an American League All-Star in 1978,1979, and 1984 and was the starting center fielder for the 1984 Detroit Tigers team that won the 1984 World Series.
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Chet Lemon was known as one of the best defensive center fielders in baseball from 1977 to 1987.
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Chet Lemon totaled over 400 outfield putouts in four other years.
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Chet Lemon led the American League with 44 doubles in 1979 and led the league in times hit by pitch four times, including a career-high 20 HBP in 1983.
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Chet Lemon was sometimes criticized for not standing for "The Star-Spangled Banner" due to his religious beliefs as a member of the Jehovah's Witnesses.
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Chet Lemon was born in 1955 in Jackson, Mississippi, and moved to Los Angeles when he was six months old.
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Chet Lemon attended John C Fremont High School, where he played in the backfield with Ricky Bell on the football team and starred on the baseball team.
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Chet Lemon was drafted in the first round of the 1972 Major League Baseball draft by the Oakland Athletics.
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Chet Lemon began his professional baseball career in 1972 playing for the Athletics' minor league team in Coos Bay-North Bend, Oregon.
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Chet Lemon remained with Burlington through the 1973 and 1974 seasons.
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Chet Lemon was traded along with Dave Hamilton from the Athletics to the Chicago White Sox for Stan Bahnsen and Skip Pitlock at the non-waiver trade deadline on June 15,1975.
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An infielder in the minor leagues, Chet Lemon played third base during his brief stint with the Chicago White Sox in 1975.
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Chet Lemon entered spring training 1976 as the leading candidate for the third base job, but after failing to impress manager Paul Richards with his glove, was moved to the outfield.
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Chet Lemon came into his own as both a hitter and centerfielder in 1977.
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Chet Lemon scored a career high 99 runs, while showing a dramatic increase in power, hitting fifteen more home runs than he had his rookie season.
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Chet Lemon set an American League record with 524 total chances and 512 putouts in the outfield, a record that still stands.
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Chet Lemon went 2-for-5 on the second-to-last day of the season to bring his season batting average to.
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In 1979, Chet Lemon was again the sole White Sox player on the American League All-Star team.
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Chet Lemon entered the game in the second inning, and scored in the third after being hit by a Joaquin Andujar pitch.
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Chet Lemon hit 44 doubles, tying the Milwaukee Brewers' Cecil Cooper for the American League season best total.
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In 1983, Chet Lemon became the Tigers' regular center fielder, starting 133 games at the position.
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Chet Lemon developed power with a career-high 24 home runs in 1983, and he led the American League with a career-high 20 times being hit by pitch.
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Chet Lemon was the starting center fielder for the American League at the 1984 All-Star game.
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Chet Lemon remained the Tigers' starting center fielder for three more seasons, playing 144 games at the position in 1985,124 games in 1986, and 145 games in 1987.
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In 1988, the Tigers moved Chet Lemon moved to right field to make room for speedy new acquisition Gary Pettis.
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Chet Lemon played 144 games in right field in 1988 and 111 games in 1989.
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Chet Lemon failed to hit a home run between early May and late September and concluded the 1990 season with a career-low 378 at bats and only 32 RBIs.
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Chet Lemon returned to spring training in 1991, but he was injured for much of the training camp.
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Chet Lemon was discharged after almost four weeks of treatment.
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Chet Lemon recorded 400 or more outfield putouts in five different seasons, an American League record.
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Chet Lemon had a unique ability to be hit by a pitch; in the 1980s, he was second only to Don Baylor by getting plunked 108 times.
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Chet Lemon had a penchant for diving headfirst into first base.
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Chet Lemon became a member of the Jehovah's Witnesses while playing in the minor leagues in the 1970s.
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Chet Lemon was introduced to the religion by Jerry Hairston Sr.
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Chet Lemon was the head coach for Eustis High School, where he led the Panthers to the 2003 state championship.
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