Mike Neill
{{short description|American baseball player (born 1970)}}
{{about||the Australian footballer|Michael Neill|other people with similar names|Michael Neal (disambiguation){{!}}Mike Neal}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}
{{BLP sources|date=May 2013}}
{{Infobox baseball biography
| name = Mike Neill
| position = Outfielder
| image =
| bats = Left
| throws = Left
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1970|4|27}}
| birth_place = Martinsville, Virginia, U.S.
| debutleague = MLB
| debutdate = July 27
| debutyear = 1998
| debutteam = Oakland Athletics
| finalleague = MLB
| finaldate = August 1
| finalyear = 1998
| finalteam = Oakland Athletics
| statleague = MLB
| stat1label = Batting average
| stat1value = .267
| stat2label = Home runs
| stat2value = 0
| stat3label = Runs batted in
| stat3value = 0
| teams =
- Oakland Athletics ({{mlby|1998}})
|medaltemplates=
{{MedalSport | Men's baseball }}
{{MedalCountry | the {{USA}} }}
{{MedalCompetition | Olympic Games }}
{{MedalGold | 2000 Sydney | Team competition }}
{{MedalCompetition | Pan American Games }}
{{MedalSilver | 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|date=August 2009}} 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|date=August 2009}} He established team records of 232 hits, 53 doubles and 379 total bases as well as several single-season records.{{Citation needed|date=August 2009}}
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.{{Citation needed|date=August 2009}}
He was called up by the Oakland Athletics in {{baseball year|1998}} but was sidelined with an injury.{{Citation needed|date=August 2009}} 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.{{Citation needed|date=August 2009}} His walk-off homer against Japan won the team's first-round Olympic contest.{{Citation needed|date=August 2009}} During the 1999 Pan American Games he had the game-winning hit to clinch the Olympic berth for the USA.{{Citation needed|date=August 2009}}
See also
References
{{Baseballstats | br=n/neillmi01 }}
- [http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=neillmi01 Baseball Almanac]
- {{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ne/mike-neill-1.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418023456/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ne/mike-neill-1.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2020-04-18}}
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{{2000 Olympic Champions Baseball}}
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