This past season, Cerritos College baseball head
coach Ken Gaylord stepped down
to serve as an assistant coach in an effort to
watch his two sons play college baseball. His
younger son, Brian Gaylord,
spent two seasons playing for his dad and just
completed his junior season at Lewis & Clark
State College, while his older son, Adam
Gaylord, just finished his senior season at
Stanford University. On the second day of the
Major League Baseball draft, Adam was selected
in the 31st Round by the Baltimore Orioles.
As for former
Cerritos infielder Mike Benjamin,
he saw his son, Mike Benjamin, Jr.
drafted in the 45th Round by the Colorado
Rockies.
Adam Gaylord
was a two-year starting infielder at Stanford, a
four-year letterman, and was a backup infielder
on the 2008 College World Series team, hitting
.267 over 142 career games with 49 career runs
and 47 career RBI. He finished off his Sunken
Diamond career with a home run in his last game.
Gaylord hit .232 in 31 games in 2010.
Ken Gaylord is a former Falcon who was a
two-time All-South Coast Conference selection at
first base and helped Cerritos to consecutive
State Championships (1973-74) and a combined
75-8 record. He went on to play at UCLA for two
years and was eventually named the Cerritos
College head coach in 1992.
Mike Benjamin
Jr. batted .376 as a senior at Basha (AZ) High
School and was coached by his father in the
Little League World Series back in 2002. Mike
Sr. was a two-time All-SCC selection for
Cerritos (1984-85) and went on to play at
Arizona State University, before spending 10
years in the Major Leagues. He played for the
San Francisco Giants, Philadelphia Phillies,
Boston Red Sox and Pittsburgh Pirates in a
career that ended in 2002.
Back in 1995, Benjamin had six hits in an
extra-inning game, which ties for the
second-most in Major League history.
