Lachemann was the eldest brother of three siblings who have had long careers in the game:
Marcel and
Rene have been players,
managers and coaches in
Major League Baseball. He attended
Susan Miller Dorsey High School in
Crenshaw, Los Angeles and played for Dorsey's baseball team. Lachemann had a nine-season
minor league catching career, interrupted by two years of military service, in the
Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers farm system. In his best season,
1960 with the
Great Falls Dodgers of the Class C
Pioneer League, Lachemann
batted .307 and swatted a career-high 10
home runs. During his minor league career, Lachemann hit .253 with 30 homers. He stood tall, weighed , batted left-handed and threw right-handed. As a manager of Class A, Short Season A and Rookie-level teams in the farm systems of the Angels and
San Francisco Giants for 14 seasons, Lachemann's teams compiled a 630–781 (.446) record. In
1995 and
1996, Bill Lachemann served as
bullpen coach on the staff of his brother Marcel, then skipper of the Angels. Lachemann died on February 3, 2024, at the age of 89. ==References==