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David Lawrence McKay (born March 14, 1950 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a former major league baseball player and a longtime coach. Despite not having a baseball team at his high school and only playing about 12 games a year as a teen, McKay evolved into a big league prospect.

After receiving scholarships from Columbia Basin Junior College (’69 and ’70) and Creighton University, the determined Canadian signed with the Minnesota Twins on June 20, 1971. As an active player, he was an infielder for the Minnesota Twins, Toronto Blue Jays (where he was a player for the maiden edition of the Jays as an expansion team) and the Oakland Athletics. He is the father of Cody McKay.

The 2011 season marked McKay's 28th consecutive campaign as a major league coach, a tenure spent with two teams: the Athletics ('84-'95) and St. Louis Cardinals (since 1996). He has a total of 35 major league seasons. Every year of his coaching career has been spent as a first-base coach. He has been associated with Tony LaRussa since the midpoint of the 1986 season, and has coached on six pennant-winning and three world championship teams: the 1989 Athletics and the 2006 and 2011 Cardinals.

One of the game’s hardest working and most respected coaches, McKay owns six World Series rings and 3 for winning the World Series. LaRussa has retired and McKay is now with the Chicago Cubs. He and his wife, Lena, live in Scottsdale, Arizona. He is a member of the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame, elected in 2001.