William Alan Laskey was born on December 20, 1957 in Toledo, Ohio. He attended Woodward High School and graduated in 1975, where he excelled in baseball. He was inducted into Woodward High School's Hall of Fame in 1999 and the City of Toledo's Hall of Fame in 2002.
Laskey played collegiately for Monroe Community College and Kent State University. In 1977, he played collegiate summer baseball with the Orleans Cardinals of the Cape Cod Baseball League.
Laskey was drafted twice by the Detroit Tigers in the 1977 MLB draft. On January 11, he was drafted in the eighth round of the January Draft-Regular Phase from Monroe Community College (Rochester, NY), but did not sign. On June 7, he was drafted in the first round (23rd overall) of the June Draft-Secondary Phase, but did not sign. On June 6, the Kansas City Royals drafted Laskey in the second round of the 1978 MLB draft in the June Draft-Secondary Phase from Kent State University (Kent, OH), and he signed.

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