Michael Robert Neill (born April 27, 1970 in Martinsville, Virginia) is an American former Major League Baseball and Olympic baseball player.

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Mike Neill
Outfielder
Born: (1970-04-27) April 27, 1970 (age 52) Martinsville, Virginia
Batted: Left Threw: Left
MLB debut
July 27, 1998, for the Oakland Athletics
Last MLB appearance
August 1, 1998, for the Oakland Athletics
MLB statistics
Batting average	.267
Home runs	0
Runs batted in	0
Teams
Oakland Athletics (1998)
Medals Men's baseball Representing the  United States Olympic Games 2000 Sydney Team competition Pan American Games 1999 Winnipeg Team competition

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.^{[citation needed]} 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.^{[citation needed]} He established team records: 232 hits, 53 doubles and 379 total bases and several single season records.^{[citation needed]}

Neill won two Minor League batting championships and had a .307 batting average over 11 years. He was selected to 4 All-Star teams and was a key player in the Vancouver Canadians' 1999 AAA World Series victory.^{[citation needed]}

He was called up by the Oakland Athletics in 1998 but was sidelined with an injury.^{[citation needed]} Neill led the 2000 USA Olympics team to a 4–0 win over Cuba in the gold medal game with a 1st-inning home run and a dramatic sliding catch in the 9th inning.^{[citation needed]} His walk off homer against Japan won the team's 1st round Olympic contest.^{[citation needed]} During the 1999 Pan American Games he had the game-winning hit to clinch the Olympic berth for his USA team.^{[citation needed]}

See also

• 1991 College Baseball All-America Team

References

• Career statistics and player information 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 2020-04-18.

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