1967 Topps #471 Rene Lachemann
About Rene Lachemann
Topps kept Lachemann in the 1967 set at #471, out of the sixth series. He spent the whole year in Triple-A, crossing into Canada to catch for the Vancouver Mounties of the Pacific Coast League, where he hit .222 with 6 home runs and 53 RBIs in 123 games. After the PCL season he got extra work in the Arizona Fall League under manager John McNamara, who would hire him as a big-league third-base coach years later. The card recorded his standing in the Athletics organization, not major league playing time.
Rene Lachemann, born May 4, 1945 in Los Angeles, was a right-handed catcher who played parts of three seasons between 1965 and 1968 for the Kansas City and Oakland Athletics, batting .210 with 9 home runs and 33 RBIs in 118 games. The son of Swiss immigrants and the youngest of three brothers who all made long careers in professional baseball, he was a Los Angeles Dodgers batboy from 1959 to 1962, an all-city player at Dorsey High School, and a University of Southern California student before signing with Kansas City in 1964 at 19. He made his major league debut the following May 4, his twentieth birthday. Only 1965 gave him steady work; he spent most of the next decade in the minors, drifting to first base and the infield as his catching chances dried up. He began managing in the Athletics farm system in 1973 and went on to run the Seattle Mariners, the Milwaukee Brewers, the Florida Marlins through their first four seasons, and the Chicago Cubs for a single game in 2002. In between he coached third base for the 1986 American League champion Boston Red Sox and worked on Tony La Russa's Oakland staff for the 1989 World Series title, part of a run in the game that stretched past fifty years.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 218 | 2 | 33 | 113 | 54 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| SGC | 11 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Graded population — a scarcity guide, not a price. Data as of 2026-09-04. Half grades fold down for both graders (8.5→8); PSA qualified slabs (OC, ST, PD, MC and the like) are not counted. PSA registers a row for every one of the 624 states; SGC lists no separate row for the #149 white-streak state.
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Frequently asked questions
What is the 1967 Topps #471 card?
It is card #471 of the 609-card 1967 Topps Baseball set, picturing Rene Lachemann of the Kansas City Athletics.
Why is #471 harder to find?
It is from the sixth print series, #458-533 - noticeably tougher than the first five.
How many cards are in the 1967 Topps Baseball set?
609 cards, tracked as 624 collectible states. Numbers run from 1 to 609 without a gap - no number was skipped and none was used twice - and 15 cards carry catalogued print variations that the master set counts separately.
Sources: Trading Card Database, PSA CardFacts, Cardboard Connection, Baseball Almanac, BaseballCardPedia, Baseball-Reference, the SABR BioProject and the National Baseball Hall of Fame, PSA & SGC population reports. Card data compiled and maintained by T206Cards.com. Page last updated 2026-10-12.