John R. McKee (December 6, 1914 â May 12, 2013) was an American college baseball player and Major League Baseball coach. He spent one season, , as the bullpen coach of the Pittsburgh Pirates.
McKee was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. According to the Society for American Baseball Research, he was a catcher for nearby Villanova University. No professional playing record is listed for him in Baseball Reference. During World War II, he was a pilot and lieutenant colonel in the United States Army Air Forces.
McKee served on the coaching staff of Pittsburgh manager Billy Herman in 1947. According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the United Press, McKee and fellow coach Zack Taylor were released on October 23, 1947, after Billy Meyer succeeded Herman as the Pirates' skipper; those accounts referred to McKee as the club's "bullpen catcher."
McKee died in Vineland, New Jersey, at the age of 98.