Chet Covington

Chester Rogers Covington (November 6, 1910 – June 11, 1976) was a Major League Baseball pitcher who played for the Philadelphia Phillies in 1944.

The 33-year-old rookie, recipient of The Sporting News Minor League Player of the Year Award in 1943, was a native of Cairo, Illinois.

Covington is one of many ballplayers who only appeared in the major leagues during World War II.

His first and only major-league win was in the first game of a doubleheader against the Braves at Shibe Park on April 30, 1944.

This biographical article relating to an American baseball pitcher born in the 1910s is a stub.