Editing Chet Lemon (section)

{{Short description|American baseball player (1955–2025)}}
{{Hatnote|"Chet Lemon" is also a pseudonym of professional wrestler [[Kevin Nash]].}}
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{{Infobox baseball biography
|name=Chet Lemon
|image=Chet Lemon (7934636536) (cropped).jpg
|image_size=275
|caption=Lemon in 2012
|position=[[Outfielder]]
|bats=Right
|throws=Right
|birth_date={{birth date|1955|2|12}}
|birth_place=[[Jackson, Mississippi]], U.S.
|death_date={{death date and age|2025|5|8|1955|2|12}}
|death_place=[[Apopka, Florida]], U.S.
|debutleague = MLB
|debutdate=September 9
|debutyear=1975
|debutteam=Chicago White Sox
|finalleague = MLB
|finaldate=October 3
|finalyear=1990
|finalteam=Detroit Tigers
|statleague = MLB
|stat1label=[[Batting average (baseball)|Batting average]]
|stat1value=.273
|stat2label=[[Home run]]s
|stat2value=215
|stat3label=[[Runs batted in]]
|stat3value=884
|teams=
* [[Chicago White Sox]] ({{mlby|1975}}–{{mlby|1981}})
* [[Detroit Tigers]] ({{mlby|1982}}–{{mlby|1990}})
|highlights=
* 3× [[Major League Baseball All-Star Game|All-Star]] ([[1978 Major League Baseball All-Star Game|1978]], [[1979 Major League Baseball All-Star Game|1979]], [[1984 Major League Baseball All-Star Game|1984]])
* [[World Series champion]] ({{wsy|1984}})
}}

'''Chester Earl Lemon''' (February 12, 1955 – May 8, 2025) was an American professional [[baseball]] [[outfielder]]. He played sixteen seasons in [[Major League Baseball]] (MLB), beginning with the [[Chicago White Sox]] in 1975, where he played for six years. He was then traded to the [[Detroit Tigers]], where he played the rest of his career from 1982 to 1990.

A native of [[Jackson, Mississippi]], he grew up in [[Los Angeles]]. He was drafted in the first round of the [[1972 Major League Baseball draft]]. He was selected as an [[American League]] [[Major League Baseball All-Star Game|All-Star]] in 1978, 1979, and 1984 and was the starting [[center fielder]] for the [[1984 Detroit Tigers season|1984 Detroit Tigers]] team that won the [[1984 World Series]]. Lemon was known as one of the best defensive center fielders in baseball from 1977 to 1987. In 1977, he led the American League with 512 outfield [[putout]]s, the fourth highest single-season tally in major league history and the highest tally since 1951.<ref>{{cite web|title=Single-Season Leaders & Records for Putouts as OF|publisher=Sports Reference LLC|work=Baseball-Reference.com|access-date=February 20, 2018|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/leaders/PO_of_season.shtml}}</ref> He also totaled over 400 outfield putouts in four other years (1979 and 1983–1985).<ref name=BR/> He led the American League with 44 [[Double (baseball)|double]]s in 1979 and also led the league in times [[hit by pitch]] (HBP) four times, including a career-high 20 HBP in 1983.<ref name=BR/> After his playing career ended, he became a baseball instructor and coach.