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| Mike Neill | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Outfielder | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Born: (1970-04-27) April 27, 1970 (age 54) Martinsville, Virginia, U.S. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Batted: LeftThrew: Left | |||||||||||||||||||||
| MLB debut | |||||||||||||||||||||
| July 27, 1998, for the Oakland Athletics | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| August 1, 1998, for the Oakland Athletics | |||||||||||||||||||||
| MLB statistics | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting average | .267 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Home runs | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Runs batted in | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Michael Robert Neill (born April 27, 1970) is an American former Major League Baseball and Olympic baseball player.
Career
His baseball career included a stint with the Oakland Athletics and ended with the Olympic gold medal team in the 2000 games in Sydney, Australia. He was named Delaware Athlete of the Year in 2000. At Villanova University he compiled a .417 career batting average, led the Wildcats to the 1989 and 1991 Big East Conference crowns and was named 1991 Big East Player of the Year. He established team records of 232 hits, 53 doubles and 379 total bases as well as several single-season records.
Neill won two minor league batting championships and had a .307 batting average over 11 years. He was selected to four all-star teams and was a key player in the Vancouver Canadians' 1999 AAA World Series victory.
He was called up by the Oakland Athletics in 1998 but was sidelined with an injury. Neill led the 2000 USA Olympics team to a 4–0 win over Cuba in the gold-medal game with a first-inning home run and a dramatic sliding catch in the ninth inning. His walk-off homer against Japan won the team's first-round Olympic contest. During the 1999 Pan American Games he had the game-winning hit to clinch the Olympic berth for the USA.
See also
References
- Career statistics from Baseball Reference
- Baseball Almanac
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Mike Neill". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on April 18, 2020.
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- 1970 births
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- All-American college baseball players
- American expatriate baseball players in Canada
- Baseball players from Virginia
- Edmonton Trappers players
- Huntsville Stars players
- Modesto A's players
- Baseball players at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Oakland Athletics players
- Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for the United States in baseball
- Pawtucket Red Sox players
- People from Martinsville, Virginia
- Reno Silver Sox players
- Southern Oregon A's players
- Tacoma Rainiers players
- Tacoma Tigers players
- Vancouver Canadians players
- Villanova Wildcats baseball players
- Baseball players at the 1999 Pan American Games
- Medalists at the 1999 Pan American Games
- Pan American Games silver medalists for the United States in baseball