1968 Topps #422 Rene Lachemann
About Rene Lachemann
1968 Topps #422 shows Lachemann with the Athletics in their first Oakland season, a fifth-series card. He opened the year back at Vancouver and was recalled in late April when injuries struck catchers Phil Roof and Jim Pagliaroni. He started 15 games behind the plate and went 9-for-60, a .150 average with no home runs and 4 RBIs over 19 games, then played his last major league game on June 8 and returned to the Mounties, where he hit .249 in 62 games. He was 23, and the rest of his playing days were spent in the minors.
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 | 375 | 20 | 105 | 165 | 50 | 16 | 10 | 9 | 0 |
| SGC | 15 | 0 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 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. Slabs of the yellow team-letter #49 and #66 are 1968 Milton Bradley game cards and are not counted here.
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Frequently asked questions
What is the 1968 Topps #422 card?
It is card #422 of the 598-card 1968 Topps Baseball set, picturing Rene Lachemann of the Oakland Athletics.
How many cards are in the 1968 Topps Baseball set?
598 cards, tracked as 606 collectible states. The numbers run from 1 to 598 without a gap and no printed number carries two different cards; eight cards - six of the seven checklists, #10 AL Pitching Leaders and #400 Mike McCormick - carry a catalogued print variation that the master set counts separately.
Sources: Trading Card Database, PSA CardFacts, Cardboard Connection, BaseballCardPedia, Baseball Almanac, Beckett, 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.