# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mike-sylvester
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:41:46.506Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mike-sylvester"
name: "Mike Sylvester"
slug: "mike-sylvester"
description: "Michael Joseph Sylvester is an American and Italian former professional baseball player, professional basketball player, and basketball coach. During his basketball playing career, at a height of 1.97 m, he was known as an accurate shooter. Due to the United States boycotting the 1980 Summer Olympics, he was the only American to win a medal at those games, using a dual citizenship to play for the senior Italian national basketball team."
tagline: "American-Italian basketball player and coach"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Romeo_Sacchetti.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Basketball Players"
  slug: "basketball-players"
profileType:
  name: "Basketball Player"
  slug: "basketball-player"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3665646"
birthDate: "1951-12-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.29
  momentum:             16.640625
  historical:           12.218468
  currentAttention:     5.600000000000001
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "米夏埃尔·西尔韦斯特"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%83_%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%81%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B1"
    title: "مايك سيلفستر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%83_%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%81%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B1"
    title: "مايك سيلفستر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Sylvester"
    title: "Mike Sylvester"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Sylvester"
    title: "Mike Sylvester"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Sylvester"
    title: "Mike Sylvester"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%DB%8C%DA%A9_%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B1"
    title: "مایک سیلوستر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ff.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Sylvester"
    title: "Mike Sylvester"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Sylvester"
    title: "Michael Sylvester"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Sylvester"
    title: "Mike Sylvester"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Sylvester"
    title: "Mike Sylvester"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Sylvester"
    title: "Mike Sylvester"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BA%D0%BB"
    title: "Сильвестер, Майкл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Silvester"
    title: "Michael Silvester"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2344636"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump