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 of 232 hits, 53 doubles and 379 total bases as well as 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 four 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 first-inning home run and a dramatic sliding catch in the ninth inning.[citation needed] His walk-off homer against Japan won the team's first-round Olympic contest.[citation needed] During the 1999 Pan American Games he had the game-winning hit to clinch the Olympic berth for the USA.[citation needed]

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