Mike Neill, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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baseball player
Date of Birth: 27-Apr-1970
Place of Birth: Martinsville, Virginia, United States
Profession: baseball player
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About Mike Neill
- Michael Robert Neill (born April 27, 1970 in Martinsville, Virginia) is a 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.
- 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.
- He established team records: 232 hits, 53 doubles and 379 total bases and several single season records.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.
- He was called up by the Oakland Athletics in 1998 but was sidelined with an injury.
- 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.
- His walk off homer against Japan won the team's 1st round Olympic contest.
- During the 1999 Pan American Games he had the game-winning hit to clinch the Olympic berth for his USA team.Neill has spent the past 6 years as a financial adviser, currently with Morgan Stanley Smith Barney in Philadelphia.
- In 2005, he was inducted into the Delaware Hall of Fame.
- And in 2007, he was inducted into the Villanova Hall of Fame.Neil currently resides in Radnor, Pennsylvania.
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