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Cheff graduated from Lewis & Clark College (Oregon) and started his coaching career as a high school football coach.
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His first baseball coaching position was with Lower Columbia College (Washington). Cheff became the head coach at Lewis–Clark State College since 1977, winning 16 National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics) titles. 114 of his former players have gone on to play professionally, with 14 reaching Major League Baseball.
Cheff was named National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics coach of the year eight times.
He was inducted into the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics Hall of Fame in 1994 and the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) Hall of Fame in 2006. 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. He was inducted into the National College Baseball Hall of Fame in 2012.
