Clara Chiano (September 19, 1921 – November 27, 2000) was an infielder who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5' 0", 108 lb., Chiano batted and threw right handed. She was born in Arnold, Pennsylvania.[1][2]
The diminutive Clara Chiano played semiprofessional softball in Racine, Wisconsin and Boston in the early 1940s.[1] She joined the league with the Racine Belles club in its 1944 season.[1]
After baseball, Chiano worked as an associate for the electronics industry in Dorchester, Massachusetts. She retired in 1983 and moved to Orange City in Florida.[1]
The AAGPBL folded in 1954, but there is a permanent display at the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum at Cooperstown, New York since November 5, 1988, that honors the entire league rather than any individual figure.[3]
Chiano was a long time resident of Orange City, Florida, where she died in 2000 at the age of 79.[1]