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| Mike Neill | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Outfielder | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born:April 27, 1970 Martinsville, Virginia | ||||||||||||||||||||
Batted: Left Threw: Left | ||||||||||||||||||||
| MLB debut | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 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) is an American former Major League Baseball and Olympic baseball player.
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 ]
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