Mike Neill
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Mike Neill | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Outfielder | |||||||||||||||||||||
Born: Martinsville, Virginia | April 27, 1970|||||||||||||||||||||
Batted: Left Threw: Left | |||||||||||||||||||||
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July 27, 1998, for the Oakland Athletics | |||||||||||||||||||||
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August 1, 1998, for the Oakland Athletics | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Batting average | .267 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Home runs | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Runs batted in | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Michael Robert Neill (born April 27, 1970 in Martinsville, Virginia) 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]
Neill has spent the past 6 years as a financial adviser, currently with Morgan Stanley Smith Barney in Philadelphia.[citation needed] In 2005, he was inducted into the Delaware Hall of Fame.[citation needed] And in 2007, he was inducted into the Villanova Hall of Fame.[citation needed]
Neil currently resides in Radnor, Pennsylvania.[citation needed]
See also
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.
- 1970 births
- Living people
- All-American college baseball players
- American expatriate baseball players in Canada
- Baseball players at the 1999 Pan American Games
- Baseball players from Virginia
- Edmonton Trappers players
- Huntsville Stars players
- Modesto A's players
- Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Oakland Athletics players
- Olympic baseball players of the United States
- Olympic gold medalists for the United States in baseball
- Pan American Games medalists in baseball
- Pan American Games silver medalists for the United States
- 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 2000 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1999 Pan American Games