Adrian Burnside


Adrian Mark Burnside is an Australian former baseball player born in Alice Springs.
He was a member of the Australian Olympic baseball team, which achieved a silver medal in the baseball tournament at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. He later played for the Lamigo Monkeys in the Chinese Professional Baseball League in Taiwan.

Early years

In 1995, Burnside was selected for the Australian national junior baseball team to compete in the World Junior Baseball Championship held in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. There he helped his team to win its fifth bronze medal, racking up three wins.

Minor league career

During his Minor league baseball career he played under the Los Angeles Dodgers at Rookie, A-A and AA level, Pittsburgh Pirates at AA level, Detroit Tigers AA and AAA level, Toronto Blue Jays at AAA level, and the San Diego Padres at AA and AAA level.