Mike Neill

Mike Neill
Outfielder
Born: (1970-04-27) April 27, 1970 (age 54) Martinsville, Virginia, U.S.
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

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.^{[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.