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).

Ed Cheff
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1977–2010Lewis–Clark State College
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
  • 16× NAIA World Series (1984, 1985, 1987–1992, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2006–2008)
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]

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