It has been a great baseball life for Mike Gallego, who played in three World Series and four postseasons overall, picking up a ring with Sandy Alderson’s 1989 A’s, and coached in another Fall Classic for the 2007 Rockies.
In Yankees lore, however, Gallego serves primarily as the answer to a trivia question:
Who was the next-to-last player to wear No. 2?
“I knew I wasn’t worthy of a single digit,” Gallego, now the Angels’ director of baseball development, said this past week in a phone interview. “I respected the history of the Yankees too much.