Paul O’Neill is an American former baseball right fielder who played 17 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB).



Paul O’Neill played professional baseball with the Cincinnati Reds and the New York Yankees and had a long and successful career.

He was a five-time All-Star and appeared in six World Series, winning five of them.



Paul O'Neill
Paul O’Neill

He was one of the most popular and well-liked New York Yankees of the mid-to-late 1990s when the team was a dominant force in the American League before he retired in 2001.

In Me and My Dad: A Baseball Memoir, written with Burton Rocks, O’Neill looks back on his career as a third-generation professional baseball player.

After serving in World War II, O’Neill’s grandpa played baseball in Billings, Montana, in 1909, and his father, Chick, pitched in the California Leagues.

It’s maybe not surprising, however, that Paul, the youngest of six children, grew up with his father teaching and encouraging him to play baseball and hockey.

Who Are Paul O’Neill Parents Charles O’Neill and Virginia Gwinn

Paul O’Neill was born to Charles O’Neill and Virginia Gwinn. Charles O’Neill ran his own excavation business, but his true passion was baseball.

His father, Charles died on October 27, 1999, at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan of complications from heart disease. Mr. O’Neill, 79, a minor league ballplayer, had recently suffered several heart attacks.

His mother, Virginia Gwinn, was a medical technician who raised the six O’Neill children

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