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.

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.

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