Mickey Callaway

Professional baseball veteran Mickey Callaway will serve as interim head baseball coach at Texas A&M International University for the 2008 season. The Memphis, Tennessee native accepted the appointment in January.

Callaway has played professional baseball since leaving the University of Mississippi in 1996. He has played the last three seasons with the Hyundai Unicorns of the Korean Baseball League, earning All-Star honors twice. Callaway plans on continuing his career after rehabbing from elbow surgery.

Callaway was a seventh round draft pick by the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in 1996. He was named Tampa Bay's AAA Pitcher of the Year in 2001 and the Los Angeles Angels' Minor League Pitcher of the Year in 2002.

After a steady march through the minor leagues, Callaway made his Major League debut with the Devil Rays in 1999. He would see action with the Devil Rays, Angels and Texas Rangers through the 2004 season. Callaway was a member of the 2002 World Series Champion Los Angeles Angels.

Before entering the professional ranks, Callaway was a three-year letterwinner at Ole Miss. He compiled a 20-18 career record for the Rebels, a mark that places him on the school's top-10 list for career wins. Callaway was also a member of the 1992 U.S. Olympics Goodwill Games Team that competed in Seoul, Korea.

Callaway and his wife, Anna, have a two-year old daughter, Cate.