Mike Neill
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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.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". 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.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". He established team records of 232 hits, 53 doubles and 379 total bases as well as several single-season records.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
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.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
He was called up by the Oakland Athletics in 1998 but was sidelined with an injury.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". 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.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". His walk-off homer against Japan won the team's first-round Olympic contest.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". During the 1999 Pan American Games he had the game-winning hit to clinch the Olympic berth for the USA.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
See also
References
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- Olympic gold medalists for the United States in baseball
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- Pan American Games silver medalists for the United States in baseball