Ed Cheff
Cheff graduated from Lewis & Clark College (Idaho) and started his coaching career as a high school football coach. His first baseball coaching position was with Lower Columbia College (Washington).
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
|---|---|
| 1977–2010 | Lewis–Clark State College |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
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| College Baseball Hall of Fame Inducted in 2012 | |
Ed Cheff is a retired college baseball coach.
Cheff became the head coach at Lewis–Clark State College since 1977, winning 16 National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) titles.[1] 114 of his former players have gone on to play professionally, with 14 reaching Major League Baseball.[1] Cheff was named NAIA coach of the year eight times.[1] He was inducted into the NAIA Hall of Fame in 1994 and the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) Hall of Fame in 2006.[2] He won the ABCA's Lefty Grove Award, given for lifetime achievement to amateur baseball.[1] He has been a coach with the United States national baseball team (1991, 1994) and has managed the Alaska Goldpanners and Anchorage Bucs in the Alaska Baseball League.
Cheff retired in 2010. [3][1] He was inducted into the National College Baseball Hall of Fame in 2012.[4]
Cheff and his wife, Karen, a retired elementary school teacher, have three sons: Trever, Tyler, Toby.[1]