The year 2014 marks the 15th year that Bill will be coaching in the Western Major Baseball league. 2000 and 2001 were two years spent in Melville with the Millionaires and the previous 11 with the Cardinals in Yorkton.
From 1992 and through 1997 Bill coached the Calder Minor baseball team as they progressed through the minor divisions of baseball, and in 1998 and '99 Bill coached the Yorkton Prairie Bandits, a Bantam team that played in the local bantam division.
In 1997 Bill was selected as the Chef de Mission for the Sask Midget Provincial Team that competed for the National Championship in Stonewall Manitoba.
In his playing days, Bill attended Fresno City College in 1964 and Fresno State College in 1965 to '68. Bill got the opportunity to play on both California school baseball teams and also graduated from Fresno State with a degree in Education.
All the while, Bill played Summer Collegiate Baseball with the Yorkton Phillies, Yorkton Elks and the Yorkton Cardinals. In 1967 the Cardinals were successful in winning the Southern Saskatchewan League championship of which Bill was part of this team.
This team has been inducted into both the Yorkton and Saskatchewan Athletics Hall of Fame. He then went on to play two years with the Neilburg Monarchs in 1969 and 70 and two years with the North Battleford Beavers in 1971 and '72. He was also a part of the '72 Beavers when they captured the Northern Saskatchewan crown. From the years 1964- 1972, Saskatchewan Baseball on the Summer Collegiate Level, saw each team allowed only 2-3 imports per team from U.S. Colleges. Other than this exception, all teams were made up of local College and non College players.
John McVey joined the Yorkton Cardinals coaching staff following his first year of Collegiate coaching at Warner University FL. The All-County selection in Palm Beach County signed with Warner in the spring of 2006. After limited playing time his first two years, his Junior year was breakout.
That year he was second on the team in RBI's, Homeruns and Batting Average. In his senior year he led the Warner Royals in Homeruns and was tied for fifth place in The Sun Conference in that category.
John graduated with a degree in History and a minor in Psychology. He is currently pursuing his Masters in Business Admin-istration at Warner. Along with baseball coaching John is also substitute teaching. After his playing career ended, John decided to join Head Coach Jeff Sikes and his Warner staff for the 2012-2013 season. John specializes in hitting, but also has knowledge and great interest in infield and outfield defenses. He currently resides in Lake Wales FL.
The WMBL Yorkton Cardinals organization is delighted that a young man of John's ability has chosen Yorkton as his first stop in the quest of a Collegiate baseball coaching career. Together with his first year at Warner and a very intense WMBL summer, John will have laid the early ground work toward that goal.
