Mike Benjamin (baseball)
Michael Paul Benjamin is an American former professional baseball infielder who played primarily as a shortstop in Major League Baseball, from to and. His longest stint was with the San Francisco Giants as a utility infielder. A 1983 graduate of Bellflower High School, he played college baseball at Arizona State University.
On June 14, 1995, he tied a Giants single-game record with six hits. This was part of a stretch in which he tied the major league record for most hits in two consecutive games with ten, set a major league record for most hits in three consecutive games with 14, and tied another record for most hits in four consecutive games with 15.
Mike coached his son's Little League team from Arizona to the Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, in 2003. From 2016-17, he served as the manager for the Kane County Cougars. He was the manager for the Missoula Osprey of the Pioneer League in 2017-2018, and he became the team's bench coach in 2019.
