University of Maine Athletics

Bill Livesey was a two-time, first-team All-Yankee Conference outfielder, hitting .353 with a .432 slugging percentage as a senior captain, while also  pitching and compiling a 5-4 record over his junior-senior seasons. He played a season of varsity basketball and returned to UMaine as assistant baseball coach and head soccer coach during 1966-68 while embarking on a career in coaching and professional baseball. During two decades with the New York Yankees, he was instrumental in the scouting, drafting, signing and developing of the famous Core Four+1 of Derek Jeter, Mariano Rivera, Jorge Posada and Andy Pettitte plus Bernie Williams, who led the Yankees to five World Championships.