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Art Reichle

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Art Reichle was the head coach of the UCLA Bruins baseball in 1941 and from 1946 to 1974. He had a career record of 747–582–12. He was inducted into the UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame in 1998.[1] One of the players he coached at UCLA was Jackie Robinson.[2] He died at the age of 86 on May 23, 2000.[3]

Led by Chris Chambliss, his 1969 team won the Pacific-8 Conference Championship and played in the College World Series, first appearance for the university.

He was a student-athlete at UCLA from 1934–36, playing football, rugby and baseball. He married his wife Ruth and they had three children, sons Arthur Jr. and Richard and daughter Denise Margarite.

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